[Shivetya]

One is embedded so you do not easily identify just how much all those free services cost you.

embedded taxes benefit the tax man and the easiest to make regressive thereby clawing back much of the money spent on services

[erfderd]

Ya, Canada used to have a VAT like tax, and then got rid of it in the 90s.

My question was honest though. Is there something special (good) about VAT vs. sales tax that I'm missing? Because the OP implied we don't pay sales tax in the US, which is (generally) not true.