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Re:Sales tax creates more unnecessary pain than value added tax by megiddo on Friday December 11, 2020 @03:46PM (#25390755)
He also confounds costs with prices.

Costs are not a significant factor in the prices of market goods - that is dominated by supply and demand.

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Re:Sales tax creates more unnecessary pain than value added tax by CrazyStat on Friday December 11, 2020 @05:26PM (#25392254)
The supply curve is determined to a large extent by costs, so this doesn't seem like as very helpful nitpick.
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