What aspect of U.S. culture that has been adopted by your culture do you dislike?

I can't wrap my head around the sales tax thing

I agree, it'd be easier to factor in the cost of everything, especially buying expensive items.

Each state is different with its own constitution and laws. My state (Louisiana) is unique in that it sort of follows Napoleonic Code as opposed to the 49 other states that has a system based on English Law (I'm no lawyer, this is how I understand it). Louisiana has one of the highest automobile fees for tax, title, and tags. Our sales tax is 8%, I think. Some states don't have a sales tax (Oregon?). Long story short, it'd be hard to implement a standard nationwide sales tax, so it's not included in the price of what you see -- some states make up for this in property taxes or other things. Our state politicians would not agree to almost anything with another state to set a standard. You can't pump your own gas in Oregon and New Jersey, for example -- almost no one in Louisiana would agree to that.

Similarly difficult would be a public transportation system on par with many European cities. It'd be nice, but it's almost impossible to implement due to the size of each state, the country, that it'd be insanely expensive, and that our politicians can't agree with each other on things like this.

This subreddit is mainly focused on the differences.

You're right, but there seems to be a lot of misunderstandings too. It's not so simple to make firearms illegal, for example. Some Australians tend to make it sound like it's something that can happen over night -- it's just not possible, similar to a standard sales tax and public transportation.

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