{"id":48099,"date":"2018-08-22T17:25:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T23:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=48099"},"modified":"2018-08-22T17:30:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T23:30:47","slug":"square-books-announces-first-amendment-sales-tax-holiday-august-31-september-2-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/square-books-announces-first-amendment-sales-tax-holiday-august-31-september-2-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Square Books Announces First Amendment Sales Tax Holiday August 31\u2013September 2, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In celebration of the vital importance of the <strong>First Amendment of the United States Constitution<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">which prohibits, among other things, &#8220;the making of any law abridging the freedom of speech&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">or &#8220;infringing upon the freedom of the press,&#8221; <strong>Square Books<\/strong> will offer our customers a 7%\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">discount on book purchases all weekend, starting on August 31 through September 2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The discount effectively nullifies the amount of sales tax for customers, as Square Books is still\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">required to collect and pay that tax.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">This promotion celebrates the great traditions of free expression and free press in our nation and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">the rich tradition of Mississippi&#8217;s literature.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">It occurs on the same weekend that the State Legislature grants a sales tax holiday to anyone in\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Mississippi purchasing guns, a Second Amendment tax holiday initiated in <strong>Governor Phil\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Bryant<\/strong>&#8216;s first term.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">We encourage the Mississippi legislature to one day initiate a similar holiday for the sale of\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">books.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14544\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of the vital importance of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution,\u00a0which prohibits, among other<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":48100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11658],"tags":[10804,13099,13100,4906,13098,13101,602],"class_list":["post-48099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holidays","tag-first-amendment","tag-free-expression","tag-free-press","tag-literature","tag-sales-tax","tag-sales-tax-holiday","tag-square-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Tax-Holiday-feat.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}