This is the perfect tax.  Big bucks are raised.  Gullible citizens think that somebody else is going to pay for it.  I could not design a better tax to sucker in citizens to vote for it believing that somebody else was going to pay when in reality the citizens will through higher taxes.  Obviously, Fred Meyer with a 1.8 percent profit margin must pass on the 2.5 percent tax to the customers since the tax is on sales and not profits.