And why not make it mandatory?
That's meant as a serious question; as a European I obviously don't know anything about what advantages there may be to seeing the price before the tax you'll end up paying at the register anyway; isn't it more reasonable for a given customer to be able to see at a quick glance how much money will be leaving his or her wallet in a moment?
What I see on the shelf is exactly what I pay.
That is kind of the point of a nationwide identical tax on things, allowing stores to write out price stickers showing exactly what you're paying without having to calculate which part is tax etc.
Hence the comment further up about stores being forced to write out what you have to pay, not what the base price is, when targeting 'civilian' customers.
This whole thing America has with having to manually add taxes and tips at restaurants is a real head-shaker for many Europeans. We only give a tip if we've been treated above and beyond the ordinary, since the serving staff at a given restaurant actually collects a paycheck. You should try that system sometime.
Quoted from a post higher up:
Carolyn Holly spoke with Appleton in 2004 about his flying, Appleton said he is very fortunate for the things he has been able to do.
"I'm very fortunate, lucky to be able to experience the kinds of things that I do," Appleton said. "If my life were to end tomorrow, I've had a full life."
If he's done everything he wanted to do in life, is that really a bad thing?
Is this a variation of political correctness saying we can't call retards retards?
Probably because CNN generally has a more, shall we say, journalistic approach to journalism than Faux News does.
"I used to think the brain was the most important part of the body, but then I realized what was telling me so
Except the first ten Google results for 'S&C railway' actually mentions Signals & Communications on a Canadian page.
Repeat after me, Wikipedia is not the source of all knowledge.
My god, it's full of stars.
Well done submitting the Ars story to Slashdot, then.
Oh wait, you didn't?
That doesn't mean Slashdot is stagnant, it means you fail at understanding how Slashdot works.
My father was a God-fearing man, but he never missed a copy of the New York Times, either. -- E.B. White