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  • So there are two different kinds of sales taxes, the value added tax and a retail sales tax.

    You’re generally never getting out of paying a value added tax since it is incorporated as part of people and corporations doing business. Dove countries allow for refunds up to a certain amount for tourists, but it is baked into the price.

    A retail sales tax is a lot more complicated in enforcement. Selling to a business can mean you don’t have to pay the sales tax. There are also smaller groups that don’t get the attention of local tax officials when selling goods, so they don’t charge the retail sales tax. Most large websites will typically charge the buyer’s local sales tax, but it isn’t uniform for smaller vendors.

    Importing to the USA has also gotten more complicated as a lot of the minimums on import duties are gone.















  • It does; it’s called Facebook.

    The issue with Reddit over Facebook and smaller forums is that Reddit allows for anonymity while still providing access to a variety of various communities at mostly the discretion of the user. This is very hard to moderate, so Reddit found out a way to get free labor from users. Even then, Reddit has had issues with communities giving it negative press that has caused intervention several times.

    And, I don’t think people here appreciate this, but the is over a decade’s worth of work in spam prevention and other tools developed to keep Reddit from being worse. Hell, the fight about API access was because mods were losing some of the tools they had.

    So why isn’t anyone trying to copy Reddit like Twitter? No one wants to be responsible for the mess in moderation.



  • Part of it not said in any of the other answers is that schools are managed at a very local level and get a significant amount of their funding through local taxes. So, you get a lot of towns that don’t have the local tax base to raise revenue or you have a local tax base where the wealthy few would rather pay for private school than the taxes to pay for a better public school.

    The problem with organized labor in this case is that the organized labor is generally fighting the government and a lot of states don’t want an effective union network getting built or spreading.