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Makes sense to keep the taxes separate. Citizens should know how much money is not going to the provider of their product/service, but to the gang with a monopo

Makes sense to keep the taxes separate. Citizens should know how much money is not going to the provider of their product/service, but to the gang with a monopoly on violence. You will find that in more authoritarian nations it is mandated to show the final price including taxes.

ElDji 3y ago
Make sense to keep separated to please every american libertarian tourist that travel around the world, as long as the actual total is showing.
stuaxo 3y ago
I'm too tired to read this - so when I pay for something and the receipt has the amount and another bit showing the tax then this is because I live in a more authoritarian state. The more authoritarian state isn't the one where police not only carry guns but shoot citizens with them on a daily basis ? Instead it's the one where you only see the vat seperate out on your receipt, OK.
martin8412 3y ago
Stores have to show the price including any and all applicable fees/taxes/etc, and when you've completed the transaction, those fees/taxes/etc are all itemised on your receipt...
- rhaway84773 3y ago
  The GP is such a great example of the tyrannical use of “FREEDOM” to brainwash people in America to the point they don’t even realize they’re being brainwashed. The GP is convinced that being lied to on a daily basis and by every commercial entity they interact with is FREEDOM. Even though, as you point out, one can get the same FREEDOM without being lied to. But FREEDOM means whatever they have been told all their life is true and that they shouldn’t think for themselves at all.
WeylandYutani 3y ago
Countries provide an annual budget each year down to the last cent which is posted on a public website. There's no secret.
ktosobcy 3y ago
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- wryoak 3y ago
  It’s virtue signaling, not brainwashing. Our anarchists and libertarians all use this kind of language.

ElDji 3y ago

Make sense to keep separated to please every american libertarian tourist that travel around the world, as long as the actual total is showing.

stuaxo 3y ago

I'm too tired to read this - so when I pay for something and the receipt has the amount and another bit showing the tax then this is because I live in a more authoritarian state. The more authoritarian state isn't the one where police not only carry guns but shoot citizens with them on a daily basis ? Instead it's the one where you only see the vat seperate out on your receipt, OK.

martin8412 3y ago

Stores have to show the price including any and all applicable fees/taxes/etc, and when you've completed the transaction, those fees/taxes/etc are all itemised on your receipt...

rhaway84773 3y ago
The GP is such a great example of the tyrannical use of “FREEDOM” to brainwash people in America to the point they don’t even realize they’re being brainwashed. The GP is convinced that being lied to on a daily basis and by every commercial entity they interact with is FREEDOM. Even though, as you point out, one can get the same FREEDOM without being lied to. But FREEDOM means whatever they have been told all their life is true and that they shouldn’t think for themselves at all.

WeylandYutani 3y ago

Countries provide an annual budget each year down to the last cent which is posted on a public website. There's no secret.

ktosobcy 3y ago

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wryoak 3y ago
It’s virtue signaling, not brainwashing. Our anarchists and libertarians all use this kind of language.