[Shipping up to Boston]

Originally Posted by pbaronie

I could never understand why when I buy anything used I should pay sales tax. When retailers sell new they collect sales tax and pass it on to the state. That should be it! Why does the state get to reek the benefit on the same item if it is resold over and over? Where does it end?

It doesn’t end. Welcome to fuzzy municipal math. In some states you buy a car, pay sales tax....then every year you pay excise tax (essentially sales tax in perpetuity....depreciation factored in) on said car.