...like hoping Wall Street and all its workforce--and bonuses--collectively boil to death in a vat of trans fatty cooking oil.
How come?
Because the state's hiring some 330 new tax collectors. And they won't be working Wall Street:
Increased sales taxes collections goes beyond Internet sales. According to a source with knowledge of the situation, Taxation officials are also stepping up oversight of private party auto sales, where individuals are the buyers and sellers of vehicles.
Tax officials are increasingly comparing the sales tax paid when a vehicle is registered with the "book value," or broadly published prices of cars sold and registered.
For example, if the $6,000 price you declared on that 2005 Jeep you bought from your brother-in-law is significantly less than the $12,000 it's probably worth, you might get a letter from the state.
Money's got to come from somewhere...
