[LibWhacker]

Every business should do this. Itemize every government imposed expense on every customer invoice they print up. Really get customers' hackles up.

[cynwoody]

Every business should do this. Itemize every government imposed expense on every customer invoice they print up. Really get customers' hackles up.

Abolish withholding taxes.

Everyone with a job should have to cut a check to the US Treasury once a quarter!

Don't like it? Already spent it? Remember in November!

[exDemMom]

Every business should do this. Itemize every government imposed expense on every customer invoice they print up. Really get customers' hackles up.

I remember a small gas station chain in NorCal that would do this. Every shopping bag had printed on it exactly how many taxes you pay with each gallon of gas.

It is a little labor-intensive to put the numbers together, but it would be nice if more businesses would break down the cost of regulation for their customers that way. Many people support excessive regulations because they think those regulations represent free goodies from the government. That just isn't the case.

I'm thinking, for the mathematically illiterate, a graphic would be best. Say, a dollar bill split into pieces corresponding to how much of that dollar goes into the cost of Obamacare, the cost of minimum wage, the cost of hidden taxes, the actual price of the goods or services, etc. Text captions could relay the exact percentages of each cost.