"The main thing the holiday accomplishes is to create a constituency for itself, to go along with the constituencies we have for our other 110 or so sales tax exemptions."

"That reduces the chance that the Legislature will ever get rid of any of the exemptions. And that means our state will continue to exempt as many purchases as it taxes, which is the main reason our sales tax is 6 percent to 9 percent, among the highest in the nation."

Cindi Ross Scoppe makes a compelling case for a flatter, less complicated sales tax.

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