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> ... Macs are incredibly expensive here because of import taxes This sound like a great opportunity for the government to do some good.

• wolverine876 5y ago
  >> ... Macs are incredibly expensive here because of import taxes > This sound like a great opportunity for the government to do some good. Cut the taxes that fund the services poor people depend on, such as education, health care, transportation, etc., so that they can have cheaper computers and Apple can net more profit?
  • astrange 5y ago
    If this is a tariff it's not meant to fund things, they're a poorly thought out attempt to develop local industry. If it's a VAT it may be funding something, but VATs are not theoretically sound and do make a lot of things expensive, like computers, that you'd actually want to be cheap. (The reason they're used is that they're very effective because it's hard to dodge them.)
    • wolverine876 5y ago
      Do you have some evidence about these particular taxes? 'All taxes / tariffs are bad' is not an argument. That they are imperfect does not make them bad, or everything is bad.