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...or in Europe's case don't have the faintest idea it's evening happening, as a decent chunk of it comes in payroll taxes that your payslip doesn't even specify!
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That's what they did with gas taxes here. As I understand it, back in the 60's and 70's they had the tax markup at the pump and it infuriated people seeing it get added to their total, so they just made it illegal for gas stations to list the tax separately.
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Climate change is real.
We all need to recognise the threat it poses to civilisation and pay taxes to mitigate the effects of climate change.
Already the effects of climate change are escalating the cost of electricity by imposing higher costs on its reticulation.
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Wow, they're giving people too much credit. People simply don't understand the idea of tax incidence and they hate the taxes that they have to write a check for (so to speak).
Back before income taxes were automatically withheld and people had to write checks to the IRS, they hated the income tax with the fire of a thousand Suns. Now, they pay more but do so automatically and they mostly don't care.