[PaulF]

With a degree in economics, the first thing taught was that ALL costs of doing business were taken into consideration when deciding how much to charge for products. Cost of production includes labor, shipping, materials and (get this one) taxes.

Cost minus sales equals profit. Easy, right? Someone who knows nothing about the real world says sellers need to ignore the tax portion of cost so that consumers will have costs kept low while tax collections will get higher and pay for government stuff.

In the real world, tax increases on the seller equals higher prices to maintain profit and increased production costs are passed on to the consumer. You can say the lower income people will not be taxed, but increased prices due to taxing producers is actually a tax on the consumer.

Someone needs to go back to Econ 101. I like trades too, but I also like to deal with those in the business of selling seeds. Consumers just have to realize what is going on.