[WalterBright]

Suppose a business buys goods at $80 and sells them for $100. You're suggesting that his profit is $100 and he should be taxed on $100 income?

[majormajor]

That's how sales tax generally works, no?

(Which suggests that the cost gets passed along and so it is a hit to the renter.)

[bzbarsky]

> That's how sales tax generally works, no?

Yes, which is why a VAT is much saner than a sales tax.