Originally Posted by quilter on the eastern edge
How can anyone possibly justify that they are a luxury?
It must be the same everywhere-
someone(s) in a political group somewhere, or someone(s) in an answerable-to-no-one government bureau somewhere
made the decision to raise taxes/duties or maintain taxes/duties on items that would bring in revenue in spite of costing too much.
Of course books are not a luxury!
But nevertheless someone somewhere placed the taxes/duties on them, and it's harder than pulling teeth to get a tax/duty removed once it's been instated.
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