Flyboy
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Not true. Sales taxes, etc. that are applied to all manufactured products would still be permissible. Minnesota's constitutional blunder was in creating a tax that applied specifically and solely to the press--it was structured as a tax on paper and ink, but with an exemption for the first $100,000 spent. That led to a situation in which only large-scale press would be subject to the tax.For anything to happen it would need to be challenged and the result it would then be applicable to ANY taxes on firearms and possibly any accouterments, such as sales tax.....
From the Court:
This seems to suggest that a neutrally-applied sales tax is perfectly acceptable.Minnesota has offered no adequate justification for the special treatment of newspapers. Its interest in raising revenue, standing alone, cannot justify such treatment, for the alternative means of taxing businesses generally is clearly available. And the State has offered no explanation of why it chose to use a substitute for the sales tax rather [460 U.S. 575, 576] than the sales tax itself.