$ Aus vs USA $ PRICES

[Pete]

Meh, I usually just double the tax or round it out to the closest dollar amount. If a server is swamped and still polite and on point with their job, I'm more inclined to feel sympathy and throw them a little extra cash. More often than not, the people doing those jobs are doing them because it's the only job they can get at the moment, and I know that it's a shitty spot, so I'll throw them a little extra if they're nice.

As for cigarettes, I don't smoke, but in NYC, it's like 11 bucks a pack, thanks to Emperor Bloomberg and his taxing anything and everything that might not be good for you. buncha bullshit.

[Alpha]

As for cigarettes, I don't smoke, but in NYC, it's like 11 bucks a pack, thanks to Emperor Bloomberg and his taxing anything and everything that might not be good for you. buncha bullshit.

Lol, that's cheap as shit! Try US$16 minimum for a pack of 20, with the excise tax increasing by a set percentage every year. Oh, and you're not allowed to see the varieties you can buy, and when you get your hands on the packet, most of it is taken up by a picture of some dude's gangrenous foot, blind eye held open with hooks, a cigarette in the shape of a flaccid penis (impotence), a cancerous lung...