Being a Democrat means never, ever, EVER telling the truth.....and not caring about it.
Well, this is easily resolved...
Just like anything else with leftists,
when required by the rules for it to be a tax, it’s a tax,
and in a situation where it can’t be a tax, it’s not a tax.
Got it?
This is PERFECTLY “logical” for any leftist.
They are “comfortable with contradiction”, and never see that a contradiction indicates a falsehood.
The basis of all logic is the law of non-contradiction.
And I flat out asked a lib, once, whether two things that are contradictory can both be true, and she said yes.