I think it’s so obnoxious when I go into a little shop and nothing has a price tag. I hate it with the white hot passion of a thousand suns. Are you seriously gonna make me ask you about the price of every little thing I might consider purchasing? Or would you prefer that I bring a bunch of stuff to the register and then decide if I actually want it as you ring it up? And it honestly doesn’t matter if I can afford it (although the lack of clearly labeled prices are particularly rude to people who maybe can’t). No matter how much money I have I will never feel good about getting ripped off so the asking price will always be a factor.
I was recently in a local needlepoint supply store where they had nothing labeled. Needlepoint supplies vary wildly in price. You can get thread for a dollar or for $20. Canvases can cost 5 bucks or hundreds. From their website I saw that this store had needle minders (little decorative magnets to hold your needle when you take a break, they usually look like enamel pins but with magnets instead of the pin and clasp). Well they had $7 needle minders and $75 needle minders. So someone will wander in and see a cute 1 inch Snoopy magnet, think it’s a cute impulse purchase and then get hit with $75 + tax and have to either smile and go along with it or have to back out. It’s just a piss poor customer experience.
Removing 5% of $105 isn’t the same as adding 5% to $100.
That’s not how math works.
Tips are voluntary, on the cost of the meal, not the added taxes. I’m not tipping taxes lol. It’s normally a percentage of the cost of a meal, to tip $10 for a $20 is fine, but to tip that same amount on a $200 bill would just be insulting.
And why would taxes be a surprise? You’re taught about them in school since they’re a part of your everyday life. It’s not hard to do some mental math and add percentages, the inverse is orders harder.
Yeah you divide it by 1.05 rather than multiplying it by 1.05
That said, something costing less than the sticker price for a small number of people is better than it costing more for the vast majority of people
Okay, now add in multiple taxes, which one gets removed first so it squares up? You’re ignoring reality to make a simple example. I bought some clothing too, there’s no tax at all on that, so you can’t just remove it from the final sales price. Now it doesn’t square up. Whoops…. Maybe there’s a reason we don’t do that….?
Yes, minorities, they are exempt, natives specifially as well. You want to discriminate against minorities and natives? Just so you don’t need to do some simple mental math…?
Maybe the situation here is different which is why we are different…?
Shocker eh?
People who barely speak the language and you want to try and explain complex taxes and exemptions and why the price is different for them? They’re a foreigner, could even be a refugees. But fuck them…? When you should understand since you were taught? Please make it make sense lol.
All anyone around here hears is how selfish and lazy you want to be when the reason is “simpler for me”. Think of others, especially ones that would have their life’s significantly impacted by a selfish thing like this.
Why do you insist that it’s not possible to substract the sales tax at the cashier? You need to substract something like 4.76% instead of adding 5%, but cashiers literally sit in front of a calculating machine that could do this with the press of one button.
I never said it wasn’t possible, but you just described the issue. So now people are thinking the tax is only 4.76% instead of 5? You’re adding layers of confusion. And what amount do I add to my tax reporting so I can recover that amount? You are saying I need to go through every receipt and remove 4.76% and input it, instead of just moving a number from the tax line over. Because the simple thing is to actually add it to the final cost, so it’s not confusing and than the listed price isn’t “false” since taxes are separate from the price of goods.
And removing 4.76 isn’t easy, you said they were the same. Can you acknowledge that’s pure bullshit atleast? You want to make everyone’s life far more difficult, just to avoid some mental math?
How does your taxes work with gst? No way to claim any and recover? How does that work without a listed price on the receipt?
Taxes were only ever supposed to be a temporary war thing, the way you’ve adopted it, makes that no longer the case. And ours has changed a few times over the years, so it’s not just as simple as you think it is.