and then coincidentally i happened to be in texas a few weeks later and took a bottle of piper heidsieck that i bought locally to a family seven dollars difference tex's a non-tax state but they sure got you on the sales tax also i lived in the netherlands of the global headquarters of k.p. and she was based in amsterdam and of course the taxes there astronomically high in america is i'd never want to live in one of those high tax countries meanwhile no one's paying for their kids' college education when you're not paying for kids' college education and you're not paying for health care out of pocket that makes a lot of difference the government gives you a lot more in those countries so there is a lot to consider and there are a great many nuances to that credit it's a zero sum game unless the same way every whenever we talk about gas prices in the us which states are the highest because of the state tax and then when you talk about international petrol prices you look at france and it's you know what it's actually dollars a gallon really a leader or whatever it is just because the taxe