I’d like to see a national law, or addition to state Uniform Commercial Code laws or something, that the price shown is the price charged, inclusive of everything.
This is actually two “common sense” laws that I feel are unambiguous enough that I’d probably vote for a candidate if they supported this. The other being no daylight savings.
No way you’ll get business owners to “label things as more expensive”, even though that’s literally how much of the rest of the world does it.
Other than that, one big practical problem is that e.g. when shopping online, there is no way of knowing your tax rate before providing your ZIP code. Sure, retailers could eat the tax rate differences themselves like they do in the EU, but they won’t be happy about it.
What I do hope should be possible is a “no bullshit fee” law, though. What is a service charge anyway? I thought that’s what I’m paying a service provider for!
You can probably get a majority of people to agree on “no DST shifts anymore”, but you’ll lose a half of them again on the decision on whether that should mean “always standard time” or “always DST”.
This is actually two “common sense” laws that I feel are unambiguous enough that I’d probably vote for a candidate if they supported this. The other being no daylight savings.