US House passes bill allowing airlines to advertise pre-tax fares instead of the full price - Polidicks

im sick of corporations trying to fuck everyone. what are they gonna do when they [I]do[/I] fuck everyone, and no one has any money? we experienced this shit before, and everyone suffered. why can't they fucking [I]think[/I] long term for fucks sake.

[QUOTE=Tmaxx;45530247]im sick of corporations trying to fuck everyone. what are they gonna do when they [I]do[/I] fuck everyone, and no one has any money? we experienced this shit before, and everyone suffered. why can't they fucking [I]think[/I] long term for fucks sake.[/QUOTE] What a gross over-reaction to something that won't change the price of tickets what so ever...... The tickets are still going to cost the same. It's just they can do the same as any other product out there and advertise the ACTUAL cost instead of cost+taxes. Every product you buy on a daily basis does this already......

Cool, my ticket to Vancouver is only $18! Oh wait.

[QUOTE=FlakAttack;45529613]Honestly everything should have to be shown with its after tax/fee price. It's already that way here for gas/petrol, why not do it for everything?[/QUOTE] Well, that sounds like it could raise a few problems. Number one, sales taxes are very different throughout states, and even nonexistent in some states. If a company wanted to advertise a ninety-nine cent burger nationwide - good luck doing that if you have to advertise it with taxes. Number two, sales taxes, if surcharged on individual items, then rounded, and then finally summed for several items, might not add up to the same amount as it would in the current system, in which items are summed, surcharged, and [I]then[/I] rounded. There might be a few pennies' difference. This is just from my understanding.

The House votes to fuck over regular middle and working class consumers? Holy fuck, this never happens! :rolleyes: Corporations and executives pay for campaigns, Congress votes to help corporations and executives. Our system of legal corruption, ladies and gentlemen.

I wish that it listed the after tax price as the default, and in smaller print listed the % of tax you're paying on it somewhere off to the side.

[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;45529878]I really hate that everything is pre-tax. You always have to take extra money with me because you never know what the "real" price is going to be. I just wish they would make a law where every listed price was final.[/QUOTE] This is why I buy things on eBay

[QUOTE=soulharvester;45530309]I wish that it listed the after tax price as the default, and in smaller print listed the % of tax you're paying on it somewhere off to the side.[/QUOTE] So how does Subway advertise its five dollar footlong nationwide, where each state has its own sales tax rate?

[QUOTE=Elecbullet;45530344]So how does Subway advertise its five dollar footlong nationwide, where each state has its own sales tax rate?[/QUOTE] By not doing something like that since it doesn't even apply in the first place Like, big deals like that would have to go away just because they wouldn't be possible to advertise anymore, unless the price was adjusted accordingly for every state tax so that in the end it would be five dollars with tax included, and they definitely wouldn't do that because it means extra work and potential profit loss

[QUOTE=Doomish;45530373]By not doing something like that since it doesn't even apply in the first place Like, big deals like that would have to go away just because they wouldn't be possible to advertise anymore, unless the price was adjusted accordingly for every state tax so that in the end it would be five dollars with tax included, and they definitely wouldn't do that because it means extra work and potential profit loss[/QUOTE] Well then I guess we can't advertise post-tax prices. =/

I don't see why everyone's uptight about the ruling Yeah it's dumb, but I can only name two things that show the actual price including tax. Everything is pre-tax listed. Everything. And has been that way for a long ass time. Why should they be held to a different standard if no one else is being held to it i would LOVE for a bill that makes it a legal requirement for EVERYTHING to be listed as it'll cost when you hand over the money for it. Tax, Fees, Whatever, right there on the pricetag. ISPs would cry so fucking hard, though

[QUOTE=TheTalon;45530606]I don't see why everyone's uptight about the ruling Everything is pre-tax listed. Everything. And has been that way for a long ass time. Why should they be held to a different standard if no one else is being held to it [/QUOTE] What this guy said here. I don't see why you guys are getting your panties in a bunch over what's already considered normal.

What an archaic concept. If any business attempted to advertise a product's price here as the final price before GST, they would be hit so hard by Australian consumer law for misleading advertising.

Maybe the US government wants people to get better at math by making them calculate tax on their own.