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pirate787
11 months ago
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FTC announces "click-to-cancel" rule making it eas...
Actually there's a purpose to keeping taxes separate. Policymakers want the tax burden to be visible, it is not part of price transparency because the vendor has nothing to do with the tax rate.
matwood
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Taxes are also hyper local and can differ between dine in/out making it hard to show the final price up front.
r00fus
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US policymakers want this. Euro/Asian policymakers have moved beyond this - whenever you travel you pay the sticker on the tin.
It's a solved problem but we can't make it happen here. Why?
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