Comment Re:Space Race v2.0 (Score 1) 293
If handheld GPS costs $100 and in vehicle navigation costs $2500, it is possible. at 6.5% (sales tax on vehicles, goes to the state, not fed) a family of 4 with one of each has paid $156 is sales taxes alone on stuff that wouldn't exist otherwise. That beats the $35 / resident, but barely.
If you count income taxes on that money it would be over $400, but that money likely would have been spent on something else if the GPS systems weren't there.