I used to be a retailer, and I find it discouraging when somebody comes in and they pick something up and they say, 'Now if you'll sell it to me without the sales tax, I'll buy it.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you buy something online, you're supposed to pay a use tax.
If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.
I buy when other people are selling.
The thing is, I don't want to be sold to when I walk into a store. I want to be welcomed.
It is not just disposable income but whether people feel good about their immediate future that drives sales. It is this feel-good factor that drives the purchases more and more than mere economic wealth.
Human nature says that you want a bargain, whether you want the goods or not. You think that something is a steal, you'll buy it.
In sales, it's not what you say; it's how they perceive what you say.
My philosophy is that you sell things for more than you bought them.
Number one, you can sell before you buy. I call it reverse e-commerce. You take a picture, you list it for sale, you sell it, you collect the revenue, then you go buy it and send it to the customer.
If you tell people, 'that old banger of yours, we're going to tax the hell out of it,' they'll rightly tell you to get lost. But if you tell people that when they next buy a car, the tax will be adjusted so that the cleanest ones will cost less and the polluting ones will cost more, most people would say 'fair enough.'
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