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Originally Posted by JSH
anti-tax philosophy (*The idea that paying taxes should be painful and very noticeable. )
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Another way to describe it is transparency. People should know how much the price of something is tax. Pro-tax people should get warm fuzzies seeing all that money going to the government to be wisely and benevolently spent.
There's tons of deception in pricing. In Oregon, there's no way (at time of purchase) to tell how much of the gasoline bill was federal and state taxes. A bottle of booze includes taxes, so there's no way to tell how much of the cost is the product, and how much is taxes, and there's thousands of other examples of this.
Keeping people uninformed so they aren't confronted with feelings about it is deceptive.
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bag fees are pretty easy to find with a quick internet search.
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Generally true. Try finding bag fees for Frontier Airlines. It's nowhere on their website.