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On 4/5/2024 2:00 PM, AMuzi 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.
> 

C'mon Andrew, you'd say that about _any_ tax policy, regardless of how 
rational, efficient, fair, or logical it was.

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