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From: Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: bike light optics
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2024 20:54:11 -0700
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On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 13:00:58 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

>On 4/5/2024 12:24 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
>> On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 11:54:52 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Well, there's British 20% VAT vs Ohio's 6%
>> 
>> The US average sales tax rate is about 8.3%.
>> 
>> If you're shopping for the lowest international VAT/sales tax rates,
>> US is the lowest:
>> "Consumption Tax Trends"
>> <https://www.oecd.org/tax/consumption/consumption-tax-trends-united-states.pdf>
>> OECD is "Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development".

>And we have among the world's most 'progressive' income tax 
>rate schemes. Tax revenue policy seldom shows any 
>rationality, efficiency, fairness or logic, here or anywhere 
>else.

Well, if taxation is not your cup of tea (or blood), then perhaps we
should finance our government using the traditional methods of
sacking, plundering and pillaging other countries.  This has worked
fairly well since history has been recorded (by the winners).  If you
want some fairness and logic, successful conquerors usually hire
politicians, philosophers and economists to justify their actions, all
of which are summarily declared to be fair and logical.

-- 
Jeff Liebermann                 jeffl@cruzio.com
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Skype: JeffLiebermann      AE6KS    831-336-2558