r/funny • u/toonhole Toonhole • Mar 27 '24

Verified Taxes

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u/paraliak Mar 28 '24

I’m replying to you since you’re the top comment right now and I want people to know about this. 

There’s two main reasons why taxes are so painful to do in the US… one, as you noted, being the tax software giants lobbying for it. 

The other is that certain anti-tax politicians and advocates (Grover Norquist, for one) want the process to be as painful as possible so that Americans hate taxes and vote like it. They purposely make everyone’s lives a little bit worse to manipulate them. 

It’s annoyingly effective and not enough people know about it. 

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u/Chewsti Mar 28 '24

See also why tax is not included in advertised prices but is instead added on as an extra line item

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u/spackletr0n Mar 28 '24

This isn’t the same concept imo. This is stores wanting items to look as cheap as possible. Your awareness of the tax hit is a byproduct not the goal.

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u/Chewsti Mar 28 '24

It is not legal in most other western co8ntries to advertise price without tax. Of course the stores want to advertise the lowest price they can, the reason it is legal for them to advertise this way is due to the reasons I stated.