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human
I think that prices in North America should include taxes. CMV

We deserve to know exactly how much we're paying just by glancin at labels, besides, there's no benefit to the customer whatsoever in not including taxes.
gpt
The benefits of sales taxes being added after prices is that:

1. Retailers can make their price appear lower, and thus more marketable.

2. We, as consumers, can see on our receipt EXACTLY how much is being added as taxes, and thus will be more sensitive to tax changes. If taxes are slowly raised without customers seeing them on the receipt, they will not be truly sensitive to exactly where their money is going.

3. Retailers might jack their prices up slightly when a new tax law is enacted, and people would attribute it to the tax.  Say their product was $30 and was to have a $5 tax added on. They might retail it for $36 when the new tax law came out, and consumers would barely know the difference, but are still paying more for the same product.

4. Ultimately, there is no disadvantage to showing sales tax separately from product price, and the advantage it confers is more information: the more information you have on where your money is going, the better.