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Amezarak 5 days ago

Yeah, there are just so many mismatches it doesn't make sense.

- Nearly all European countries have and support a very high consumption tax (VAT). In the US, nobody would be really for this (although some conservatives favor such taxes), but US liberals would be extremely against it due to the regressive nature of consumption taxes.

- The majority of EU countries institute voter ID laws, something supported only by conservatives in the US. States with voter ID laws almost always allow some valid voter ID to be gotten for free, but they are still opposed by liberals.

There are plenty of other examples when you start thinking about it.

p_ing 5 days ago | parent [-]

We have entire 100% Democratic-run states that use regressive consumption taxing to fund the State government.