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by uiohnuipb 6101 days ago
That's a perculiarly American problem - everybody else factors tax into the sticker price.

It's only America that seems to add it at the register. I assume it's to take advantage the famously high level of math education among Americans who can easily add 4.5% state and 1.8% city sales tax to a coffee in their head.

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For an article in an American paper about the American currency, I don't think the problem is that peculiar.