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Re:Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer... by bombcar on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @11:56AM (#43092021)
The minimums that companies/landlords will charge is at least partially based on taxes (as one of the costs).

A landlord who rents to you at BELOW the cost of the mortgage + property taxes + maintenance may have his reasons (appreciation) but overall that's not a sustainable activity.

Perhaps the most obvious is gas taxes or CRV taxes on cans, those get passed along directly. If you doubled gas taxes tomorrow, the price paid at the pump would rise - it wouldn't just be absorbed by the company.

Now conversely, when you drop taxes, that doesn't necessarily immediately get passed along, but if there is competition, it eventually will.

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Re:Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer... by hx8 on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @12:59PM (#43092942)
How much gasoline are you using? I'm paying $0.75/gal combined state+local. This is about ~1/5 the current gasoline price. If we assume an average drive distance of 13,500 miles/yr, and an average mpg of 26, and my local 75cents/gallon, the average American spends $390/yr on gas tax. Honestly it seems exceedingly fair for roads.
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