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Default Walnuts: Why are they so expensive?

On 2014-08-04 11:21 AM, Michael Nielsen wrote:
> On Saturday, August 2, 2014 5:30:51 PM UTC+2,
> wrote:
>> Bags of walnuts in the shell, I mean.
>>

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> Maybe they are heavilly taxed in your region as they are in denmark?
> nuts and almonds have one of the highest taxes of goods in DK (around
> 100%), second to cars (180%).



I don't think I have ever met a Dane who has not told me about that 180%
sales tax. When I friend picked me up at the airport in Copenhagen in
his new car he said that he had paid for three cars but he only got one.