the good ole days?

Nice deflection. You used Milk and Gas as an examples (bad ones).The purchase price of milk and gas already includes the tax. What tax rate are you implying? Effective, Sales, Maginal?

If you want to talk comparative tax rates we can do that too. But you probably won't like the results and try to deflect again.

It's not the RATE, but the NUMBER of taxes as compared to then. Seriously, you cannot be this obtuse.