>>>Consumption based.
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>>hmmm, over here utility prices rising or being much above the cost in neighbour countries ticks quite a fe pepole off.
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>This is one of the benefits I suggested "should be self-evident" in a previous response. Shine the light upon taxes and people will pay more attention. ;)

This is why we had laws moved our throat which forbid VAT including prices to be less or equally prominent shown. With fuel and other taxes, they are sometimes shown at the filling station, but we germans are not really from revolution embracing stock ;-)