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must? there's more to the world than the United States I live in the UK, there's no sales tax and the sole trader selling coffee at my local railway station is
by blibble 9y ago
must? there's more to the world than the United States
I live in the UK, there's no sales tax and the sole trader selling coffee at my local railway station is almost certainly below the VAT registration threshold, so there's no tax on the purchase at all
regardless, paying a tax embedded in the price of a good is not the same thing as consulting the government on the purchase
- lostmsu 9y agoI am impressed how you mentioned UK, and parent mentioned a cup of cofee, but both of you failed to recognize, that I was talking about billions of people, who actually live under totalitarian governments. Where illegal stuff mentioned in some other comments might be buying certain books under threat of death penalty in some extreme, but still dangerously common cases. First world people still can only see first world problems.
- betterunix2 9y agoWhat stops a totalitarian government from blocking Bitcoin at the national level?
- sdfgelgh43oito3 9y agoNothing; but they wont. Do you think the VPN ban applies to banks? Selective network enforcement for social control, not economic damage to yourself.
- jcranmer 9y agoThe currency being used has no bearing on whether or not the government will find out if you're buying illegal goods. What matters is the ability of the government to discern the nature of the transaction, which has more to do with its ability to co-opt others (e.g., banks) into identifying and reporting such transactions, and (to a rather limited degree) the ability to prove existence of transactions via the payment method (which Bitcoin is actually bad at since it is basically a public ledger of who paid whom, if you can map names to keys).