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When the Government sold the right to collect taxes to private individuals.
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A primary way state governments tax consumers is with a sales tax. Vendors don't pay this tax on the goods they sell but they collect it from customers. They also use income tax and property tax but these are not consumption taxes
This was done to "encourage" the tax collectors to leave the area and forget the need to collect taxes.
They wanted to show that it still had the right to collect taxes in America.