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From: tom@mims-iris.uucp (Tom Haapanen)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: That F'n Fed. Sales Tax is Gonna *HURT*!!
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Date: 14 Aug 89 15:10:07 GMT
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Kim Nguyen  writes:
> I just heard about the federal sales tax which goes into effect
> January 1991.  9% on just about everything you can think of, and
> more...  houses, cars, guitar lessons, haircuts, books (egads,
> textbooks!?!), ... what else!??  I can't believe the gall of the govt,
> to tax someone 9% on a 6-figure price for a house!

It's 4.5% on houses up to $300,000 (or was it $400,000).
On cars, it's 9%, down from 13.5%.  So look for a drop in the price of cars.

> Other tax hikes that p*** me off:  the fed. sales tax on phone bills,
> a ridiculously high 10% to start off with, now 11%.  Gasoline taxes.
> Alcohol taxes.

Federal tax on phone bills will be down to 9%, as well.
Our alcohol taxes are not terribly high, relatively speaking.
Ditto for the gasoline taxes.

It's not that I like taxes, but somebody's got to pay the bills...

					\tom haapanen
"now, you didn't really expect          tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu
 my views to have anything to do        watmims research group
 with my employer's, did you?"          university of waterloo