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I used to live in UK and now I live in US so tax isn't that much of a setback other than when I bought my macbook pro $100!!! added on in checkout😡 !!!! I was amazed. In the UK, the price on the tag is what you pay. What a SHOCK 😱
 
iAlexG said:
I used to live in UK and now I live in US so tax isn't that much of a setback other than when I bought my macbook pro $100!!! added on in checkout😡 !!!! I was amazed. In the UK, the price on the tag is what you pay. What a SHOCK 😱
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Welcome to the United States 😉
 
iAlexG said:
I used to live in UK and now I live in US so tax isn't that much of a setback other than when I bought my macbook pro $100!!! added on in checkout😡 !!!! I was amazed. In the UK, the price on the tag is what you pay. What a SHOCK 😱
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I wish we were like that here... It's nice paying the price you see. The 15-17.5% tax the VAT represents isn't as nice.
 
dolphindolphin said:
I don't know why, but this made me laugh a good deal. I guess you can't blame the kid though; our country's media dwells on tax evasion and other financial crapola.
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Which is why I've never watched the news and haven't watched television at all for about two years now.

I get my information straight from the source before it can be spun either way.
 
flopticalcube said:
People in many countries get by with sales taxes at rates of 25%. You simply buy fewer things. I would suspect a nationwide sales tax in the US within 2 to 3 years, probably around 5% for starters.
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and they also get free college and health insurance in most cases....we dont🙄
 
Tallest Skil said:
I just read it on Wikipedia. Get the raw data, then research it on my own.
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Amen. Just don't trust Wiki when it says:
"Thomas Paine was a gay English pamphleteer, revolutionary, radical, inventor, intellectual, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States"
--Real occurrence
 
While I pay no sales or income tax in NH, we do pay a healthy property tax...over $5,000 a year for a small four bedroom home with no garage.
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5k! I had lived on the North Shore in MA and heard how much those NH guys had paid in property tax. I would have expected minimum 10k. Here in NY in addition to the 8.75% sales tax(which now doesn't seem so bad compared to CA and Chicago) and a modest 3 bedroom two story house pays like $7000, and that's 50 miles from Manhattan, it gets worse as you get closer.

To the OP, congrats on saving up enough money at that young age, I know at your age I couldn't have saved my money like that, even now I have to use every fiber of common sense that I have to save money.
 
dukebound85 said:
i miss co and its 3.x sales tax, not the 8.x here in NY
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Well, the state sales tax might be low in Colorado, but depending on your city it could approach 8%. In Denver, I think the total tax is 7.65%. Some of that is the city sales tax, some of it is for a culture district, and some of it is for mass transit.
 
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