Can you answer a question of constitutionality in regards to sales tax?

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   Douglas Lloyd

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   Answered February 17, 2013 10:12. I don't see why that would be a problem. The MBTA has been funded this way since 2000.

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   Christopher LarsonPro

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   Answered February 17, 2013 14:49. I don't understand the "constitutional" part. It is not unconstitutional under the US Constitution for states to determine how they will use their tax proceeds. They cannot make defense expenditures or anything disallowed to states by the Constitution, but there are few restraints beyond the ones explicitly stated.
   
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   Rixon Rafter

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   Answered February 18, 2013 10:21. State taxes are for states to determine for themselves--the Constitution is not implicated in the situation you describe.

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