“The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing”bakubo wrote:Anyway, whenever a new tax is added, no matter how small it starts out, it will get bigger over time. Isn't that one of the physical laws of the universe? Here in Japan 20 years ago there was no sales tax. Then they created one that was 3%. A few years later it went to 5%, which is where it still is now, but recently the government has proposed that it go to 8% and then a couple years after that go to 10%. One of the controversies within the political parties though is that some think it should go higher than 10%. Of course, some don't want it to go up at all. Chances are that what will happen is that the increase to 8% followed soon by the increase to 10% will happen though.
--Jean Baptiste Colbert