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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: bike light optics
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2024 13:00:58 -0500
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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.

-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971