Nebraska Sales Tax Statutes

http://www.revenue.nebraska.gov/legal/regs/slstaxregs.html

Need to read through this more thoroughly.  What a mess.  Sales tax should be for tangible goods.  No wonder people get into trouble with taxes.  I used to believe it was normally related to shady practices, but now I’m more inclined to think people just didn’t know (because the taxes they were liable for don’t make sense) or didn’t understand.

On the flipside, I do “get” the idea of associating the tax with something that’s regulated so that the tax pays for the costs of the regulation.  To me, this is just another good reason to deregulate to the greatest extent possible.