Should fireworks stands be taxed to help pay for firefighting?
Should fireworks stands be taxed to help pay for firefighting?
This Fourth of July, millions of dollars of legal fireworks are sold by stands around the country. Since they sell a product which causes many of the fires that start around this holiday period, should there be a tax levied against them to help pay for firefighting costs? Or, is this an infringement on free enterprise? What do you think, knowing that we set of fireworks to celebrate America's freedom from tyranny and "taxation without representation."
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