bertramus

If we want capitalism to work at its best, the masses of decision makers that power the invisible hand require as much information as possible. I'm definitely not a fan of government using politics to obfuscate economic details of a tax, but I am also very much not a fan of captive market makers, like Apple, Google, or Visa, being able to unilaterally and forcibly bury this information.

Prohibiting retailers from offering a different cash price (Visa/MC) or preventing app owners from charging 30% more than they do on their own website to cover the marketplace costs (or preventing them from allowing the app to funnel them elsewhere for subscriptions that span much farther than the app alone) are all the dark, informationless side of capitalism.

I'll engage.

So far, I haven't found many bonafide Republicans willing to say, "This is bad enough to make me regret voting for Trump", or even to have not voted for, or voted against Trump.

If you are one of these conservative/Republicans, do you fit into any of the above categories?

The most charitable interpretation of your comment is that it is based on perceived power due to the party that controls the executive office, and that you came into adulthood at or near the beginning of the Obama administration (of course, that still means you grew up with Bush, Clinton x2, Bush x2).

Or you came into adulthood during or near the Biden administration - which would still mean you are aware of 2016)

That still leaves Republicans controlling the Presidency 1/4 of that time. Further, you, like many Americans, mistake control of the Executive Branch as controlling the government, but "control" involved the legislature, and Republicans, or Republicans and West Virginia Democrats, have controlled both houses in much more of my recent memory.

For the price point I usually see them at, you can certainly do better, to be somewhat polite about it.

As an environmentalist, I am generally in favor of gasoline tax to pay for road maintenance. Without getting into the nuance of that position - I do not disagree with the fact that gas stations in my area break down the added cost per gallon into federal, state, and local tax per gallon. In fact I support it, transparency is important.