Dad didn't cough up the price of a hamburger to help his kid buy a guitar. That's the passive aggressive lesson she'll remember, not taxes.
Your unwillingness to explain to your child that taxes are how we fund the common good is the problem here, not the taxes.https://twitter.com/GroverNorquist/status/879088544702181378 …
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Right?
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Since he appears to be soliciting parenting feedback, how about don't drag your 8 year old daughter into a Twitter post read by 70K+.
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My parenting feedback is wildly judgy & involves how fucking old he is.
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alternatively, the problem is that tax isn't included in shelf price
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It isn't? Is that normal in the US? Why?! Isn't that confusing as hell (and not just for kids)? I got so many questions right now...
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Taxes vary from state to state and even city to city. NH has no sales tax on most items. Tx had tax, & Austin Tx had extra tax.
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(Austin funded public transport from a local sales tax, so it was higher than in other towns/cities.)
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Since it's a tax on sales, not VAT, it's all totaled up at the end of the purchase, I think, to minimize rounding weirdness.
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I guess I have to read up on the difference... We only pay "moms" and it's already included on our price tags.
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You would think stores could do it, but they never do. Probably a marketing thing; people buy more when they aren't figuring tax.
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(Like why stuff is 3.99 instead of $4. People see the 3 & it feels significantly "cheaper" than $4 even. There's studies on this!)
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His inability to tell her about taxes long before they got to the store tells me something about his parenting. I knew abt sales tax at 6
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"Taxes are the price we pay for civilization." ~Justice Holmes
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And giving a kid a $35 guitar is just this side of child abuse. That thing isn't going to stay in tune out probably even tune reliably.
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And then when daughter has trouble playing the blame will probably fall on her rather than the poor quality guitar given his usual rhetoric.
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That's when a gracious and loving parent says "oh! what a great bargain. I'll cover sales tax since you've worked so hard to save the rest."
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Because the child is 8. and clearly not a slacker. and if you can't explain sales tax to an 8 y/o ...
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Let me get this straight; GROVER NORQUIST won't buy his OWN KID a decent guitar to learn on? Because a $35 guitar takes an expert to play.
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