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Please watch this Vlog. It's not a complete idea, and instead of my usual vlogs I really need you to watch this, and maybe you can help me figure out what I'm saying, but it has to do with businesses/pricetags/taxes/total price.... 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plKwdJvm-tI

 

First 20 seconds, giant props for using a Rush riff as your transition music. What's hilarious is that I'm sure that this is from Clockwork Angels, even though I've only listened to the album twice in my whole life, simply because it's so obviously Rush and I don't instantly recognize the song. :-)

Okay, now I'll unpause....

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Please watch this Vlog. It's not a complete idea, and instead of my usual vlogs I really need you to watch this, and maybe you can help me figure out what I'm saying, but it has to do with businesses/pricetags/taxes/total price.... 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plKwdJvm-tI

 

This is an intriguing notion. Could someone create competitive advantage by making a store and stating "you are responsible for paying the sales tax?" This was an early idea at Sam's Club, but I think the idea got drowned by legal implications.

At the very least, we could support a retailer who CLEARLY LABELED THE TAX on goods. I'm thinking Whole Foods might be the place to pitch this idea. 

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At the very least, we could support a retailer who CLEARLY LABELED THE TAX on goods.

Along these lines, there's a website fuelprotest.com where you enter how much you paid to fill your car, and it creates a mock receipt itemising all the taxes you paid.

For example, my car took £55 of unleaded petrol. Of that, the gas station got £1.91, the oil company got £21.82, and the taxman got £31.27 (more than half).

Of the £31.27 tax, £22.10 was fuel duty, £4.75 was value added tax (VAT) on the price of the fuel, and £4.42 was value added tax on the fuel duty. A tax on a tax!

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