I had to read Grandhack's statement several times to understand what she was actually suggesting. What? What tax hike?

Money comes from people. There are two doors, front and back. The front door is asking the people directly to pay higher taxes. The back door is telling people that business should not be allowed to provide less money to the government and people have to pay more for goods and service, and the government still gets the money.  

See, the "loophole" is not on the side of business. It's on the side of government. The loophole of government's ability to make it impossible for a business to keep their costs down. The loophole of making 'shaving' sound like a favor to people, it's just a way of trying to get more money. The loophole of hypocrisy that will suggest a penalty at the gas pump and on the mileage that one drives, because they say that these higher costs will make people conserve energy... By that standard, higher costs to consumers by raising the overhead for businesses will cause people to conserve the use of business, cause further economic damage by making things more expensive, which causes damage to business as people have to restrict consuming, and we continue to see business leave the state or close shop. All the loopholes of raising minimum wage, which cause the unsuspecting to think they're getting some help when really it's causing business to constrict and causing people to lose their jobs. Yeah, like same old stink.

People need a strong, brave, no bs, unceasing response to this scamming.

I appreciate your efforts here but we can see that people are still greatly duped and we need more. Much more. Our politicians need to always explain and teach while presenting.