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A lot of us in America have no sales tax (if that’s what you mean by VAT) and those that do have it at a fraction of EU VAT rates.

> A lot of us in America have no sales tax

Not that many of us, actually. Only Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon, and some parts of Delaware and Alaska have no sales tax. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sales_tax_by_county....

I'm sure plenty of Idahoans and Washingtonians, for instance, take advantage of their neighbor status for high ticket items like this...

Except that you then have to pay a "use tax" of 6%:

This is difficult to enforce, but it seems that "taking advantage" is strictly speaking just tax fraud.