It's surprising that retailers of items subject to high additional taxes, e.g., alcohol, tobacco, do not label the prices of individual items on their shelves in a way that makes clear how much of the price is tax, e.g, (base price X, + tax Y = you pay Z). This would be a form of speech encouraging political action among customers to lower the tax. The retailer would benefit from lower tax, gaining customers who were on the bubble, those whom the tax had caused them to choose not to purchase the good.
Is such speech forbidden?
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