It is hard not to notice how China has changed in the past half dozen years. China has cracked down on the country's 80-plus million Christians, persecuting many, and expelling thousands of foreign-based missionaries living in China. It has unilaterally abrogated the Hong Kong treaty it signed with the United Kingdom in 1984 in multiple ways, disallowing the democratic electoral process enshrined in the treaty and imprisoning Hong Kong citizens for demonstrating and protesting the violation of their rights.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts exempts food from sales tax.
While prepared meals in restaurants have a 6.25 percent meals tax and many communities tack on an additional 0.75 percent local option tax, shoppers don't pay sales tax on the food they buy during a typical trip to the grocery store in Massachusetts.
