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Re:Sales tax creates more unnecessary pain than value added tax by chaostheory on Friday December 11, 2020 @04:11PM (#25391040)
1. It doesn't mean that you can't change those selective sales taxes. We already have selective sales taxes active in the US. For example, I don't pay sales taxes on groceries.

2. Migrating over to VAT doesn't mean these taxes go away.

3. The only guaranteed consequence for switching to the VAT system is that taxes will become less transparent, so they will likely increase.

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Re:Sales tax creates more unnecessary pain than value added tax by asdfasgasdgasdg on Friday December 11, 2020 @04:48PM (#25391598)
Of course. I only meant to point out that there are cases sales taxes apply to post-consumer transfers. I would be interested to know what fraction of post consumer sales transactions are indeed subject to sales taxes. You are correct that this does not make VAT inherently superior.
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