Up/over here, the Salvation army collects sales tax on everything they
sell, and there are local property taxes, utilities with taxes and a
few other hidden taxes or fees collected for their doing business.
Some of the items resold have already been originally sold and resold,
and thereby sales taxed twice before the Salvation Army ever got it
donated to them.
Oregon is without a sales tax, but property and State income tax more
than makes up for everything that directly benefits yourself.
By this time next year, we in Washington State could be paying $5/
gallon, plus paying a lot more our license tabs, as well as forking
out tolls for using roads and bridges. Expect US Postal rate will
become $.50/stamp and larger Postal shipped items going up by at least
10% and overnight (aka best effort) rates pushed up as much as 50%,
though junk and especially government bulk mail well likely be further
discounted.