The lawmakers in Texas need to embark upon an estimated $18-billion deficit, and a potential solution may include tattoos, piercings and tans. The State Comptroller’s Office said that a sales tax on these items can bring about $5-million yearly. However, a tattoo artist at Pumping Ink located in northeast El Paso named, Adam Warner, believed that they are creating art so it should not really be subjected to a sales tax.
Based on Warner’s statement, people are not buying pieces of goods from them; they are buying a piece of art, so how can these lawmakers tax a piece of art?
In addition, sales tax on tattoos could potentially hurt his business and could discourage customers from getting tattoos.
These people also worked hard to earn their money, according to Warner, people already pay so much taxed to the government, he added.
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