Comment on higher wages for the servers... by the customers. Fnbs

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nan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

That one is annoying but also makes perfect sense when everyone is competing with everyone. The business with honest prices suffers when their nearby competitor doesn’t include it and looks cheaper. The states lose out on revenue if they force businesses to display full prices but the state next door doesn’t, or has better tax rates. They all benefit from confusion.

Where there is not confusion is the border with a state with no sales tax, and all the good shopping is found on one side.

For a real fun US-ism, fuel in the US is charged at fractions of a penny (9/10s). As any Office Space fan can tell you, that adds up.

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