Not knowing the exact cost of things you’re buying is ridiculously annoying. When I travel to Europe or Asia it’s such a pleasure to buy something and it’s actually the advertised price. Add to that the fact that since advertised prices tend to be round numbers, in the US you end up with prices like 4.13 and end up with a bunch of pennies as opposed to just paying 4 bucks in most other countries.

Also, the whole “know where your money is going” is a highly ideological argument. I know where my money is going when the highly publicized tax rates are changed in a budget. In most countries news organizations will spend weeks every year, if not months, discussing the expected changes in the budget.

In the meanwhile, I have absolutely 0 idea what percentage of the money I’m paying to buy a coke is going to pay lobbyists and politicians to ensure they can continue using HFCS, and preventing proper labeling from being implemented, or what percentage of the money goes into advertising to ensure kids (and I stay hooked onto Coke), or what percentage of my money goes to ensure they get primary access to all the water in a region already suffering from drought, etc.