Why not require WalMart etc. to print on the bottom of receipts what proportions of their workforce are on public aid programs, barely scraping by on minimum wage?
"An additional $XXXX of wages to our employees is paid out of your taxes, and we avoid an additional $XXXX of tax liability, which is also sposonred by the public"
Since we're adding arbitrary tidbits of info to receipts...
Certainly seems more informative than how much the charging cost.
Require? I'll guess that quite a few restaurant owners would happily editorialize by adding disclosures of how much the "free" non-EV parking spaces cost, how much the "free" customer bathrooms cost, etc., etc. And maybe the "free" cost of complying with all the control-freak state regulations.
Or require CVS to disclose on each receipt how much of the bill goes towards subsidizing the other 2 meters of receipt paper.
I thought the CVS receipt thing was a joke the first time I saw it. It's not a joke and it's not an exaggeration. CVS receipts really are 2 metres long.
The distance from the Earth to Sun is about 8 CVS receipts. It's not 2 meters, it's 8 light-minutes.
Don't forget how much goes to free ice and water and free bathrooms...