Innovative ways to stimulate the economy: A sales tax holiday to help boost U.S. GDP

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One potential, additional source of stimulus for the U.S. economy would be for states to eliminate the sales tax, at least temporarily.

However, given the complexity of sales tax systems across the states, the tactic would have several upsides and downsides, from macroeconomic and fiscal standpoints.