• @[email protected]
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      22 years ago

      It’s not actually difficult. Small businesses do it trivially.

      Large corporations just want to make their prices look smaller and make you think the government is the problem

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      22 years ago

      In some places the state/city sales tax rate can fluctuate. That means they would have to reprint and replace every label in the entire store.

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          Highly variable depending on where you are. Often the next town over will have a different sales tax. There’s a state sales tax rate, which differs state to state, then there is a county/town sales tax added to that, which will vary within the state itself.

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            22 years ago

            There’s a state sales tax rate, which differs state to state, then there is a county/town sales tax added to that, which will vary within the state itself.

            That’s pretty standard, what confuses me about American taxes is how often they seem to change, from Americans’ accounts.

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              12 years ago

              What do you mean by that? There’s a lot of different taxes that change from location to location beyond sales tax, is that what you mean?

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          32 years ago

          It varies from place to place. In the city I used to live in the sales tax would also change when there were special municipal projects that needed funding, like a stupid ass arena…

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            32 years ago

            That still doesn’t answer the question.

            How many times did it change for you? Every month? Every week? Every day? Every hour? Every minute?

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              12 years ago

              Quantum tax rates, you can never know how much they are until you make a purchase and the wave function collapses.

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        22 years ago

        Or absorb the fluctuations for a while and reprint labels less frequently. These days things are getting e-ink labels anyway.

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          42 years ago

          Most companies try to squeeze every penny they can from you; they aren’t gonna absorb anything. That’s why the common people pay sales tax anyway, instead of the companies that sell the product!