Why don't Americans include tax in the price tags on the shelfs

You completely ignored my second point that if you pay with an EBT card you do not pay taxes, while everyone else does. If you display the price with taxes, you are still showing the wrong price for people that pay with EBT.

In Japan, it became mandatory by law in 2013 to show prices including tax
It's been criticized by some that it's a way for the government to avoid consumers from noticing how hurtful the tax raises are

you moved the rams from St. Louis. to L.A.

If FC Barcelona was moved to Madrid, they would get a second civil war. People are attached to their sports teams, why are you not?

Also why don't you use Roundabouts and Public Transport like Euros, they work out great compared to traffic lights and not having public transport

on the left is my home city of Rotterdam.

On the right is the train station of Houston, a city about 3 times larger

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Oh, i didn't know what an EBT card was.

We also have ways to deduct tax from prices, for business expenses or whatever, not my strong point.

Thing is, that is easily the minority of buyers in a random wal mart. The average citizen pays sales tax on their shit

Business owners advertise their own price, it's not on them to include the government gouge they are forced to add at the register.

but it's for the convenience of the customer, right?

The store price+tax is still the price someone has to pay, doesn't matter what % goes to the store and what goes into the chest.

the US is like 200 times your country's size. it's expensive getting tracks down everywhere.

i mean
how much is this variable tax? 5%? 10% max?
even if you buy 100/200$ of groceries it's a negligible amount

Of course it is expensive, it's showing two extremes of course. The densely populated areas could still benefit from better public transport. The mid range (300-500 KM) range is dominated by trains in Europe. I feel there is simply an unwillingness to accept how good it works, compared to flying.

>Moving sports teams across country
Just like how the EU Parliament moves from Strasbourg to Brussels and vice versa every month that costs 103 million euros in tax payer money each year?

But does the price differ that much in the end? I mean sounds tiresome as fuck to go get groceries and shit

Sales Tax can be as high as 16.25% for regular items, higher for specially taxed items like alcohol and cigarettes.

Yeah i wanna die if i think about that, it's correct.

But no, the sports thingi is cultural. Could you imagine Feyenoord fucking off to Groningen if they could get a better deal?

VAT is the greatest French invention.
You're welcome, world.

You aren't showing the massive rail depot for freight which just down the rail from the Amtrak station. Trains are meant for cargo, not people.

Napoleon also introduced last names and i believe street names over here. Thanks for that.

not really? in state each soft drink has a 5 cent tax on them just to give you an example. taxes isn't that much when I go grocery, but then again it varies from different states

I'm not saying you can't have Cargo trains, fuck me, America has done freight training very well.

It's just that there are plenty of densely populated areas that simply don't have train connections when you think they should have. A mid sized city (50k people) could do with train connections to other places if they are located in a state like Pennsylvania. Plenty of places to go, but i don't see it.

Sure you won't take the train cross country, shit's far, but short range (50 miles)? Why drive and sit in traffic when you can hop into a city center straight away?

shitty invention, taxes the poor and rich equally

what is this, lefties on my board?

comrade, stay safe

>muh equality
Fuck that. Why would the poor should be taxed as much as the rich.

I say the Poors must be taxed more than the Riches, as they are much more numerous, and this way it would make a great incentive for them to become rich.

just be rich LMAOOOO

Everything cheap in America becomes ghetto
If you invested a lot of money into a good train system in Houston nobody would use it since it would be populated by crackheads.

Yes. Homeless people are fucking retarded. All they have to do to not be homeless is to buy a fucking house, yet they don't do it. And then they dare complaining.

Income tax should be abolished in favor of higher sales tax. Taxes should be equal and as voluntary as possible. If you're poor no one is forcing you to buy luxury goods. (Groceries are not taxed in Canada and I am okay with keeping it that way)

I can't wait till one of you faggots do something stupid that gives us a reason to kill all you.

>It's been criticized by some that it's a way for the government to avoid consumers from noticing how hurtful the tax raises are

This is exactly the same justification used in America. Day-to-day it doesn't make a difference, because here in Tennessee the sale tax is a flat 9.5% (no state income tax). But there have been times where I've driven or flown up to New England or places like Seattle and having the bill comes out more than you expected it genuinely does make you think a bit. If you're acquiring materials for your company and you're cutting $10,000-20,000 checks, even 1-2% change in certain taxes can make a pretty fucking big difference over the course of a year.

because stores only do it when they want people voting against a tax they don't like, if people could see that the government steals 5-10% of their money at every purchase people wouldn't buy anything except non-taxed items (canned food and milk)

implying you need a reason.

uwu

In my state all food is tax-free except like soda and chocolate and maybe some other junk

>>Kettles

Where did this meme come from? I've never been in a house or apartment that didn't have at least some old ceramic stovetop kettle kicking around in a cupboard.

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>If you invested a lot of money into a good train system in Houston nobody would use it since it would be populated by crackheads.
Yeah bro, so empty lmao
youtube.com/watch?v=XAh-2L_JOZE

have you ever microwaved water, in any way shape or form, in your life?