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To: tired1

That federal excise tax on your phone bill was enacted more than 100 years ago to pay for the Spanish American War. Apparently we are still paying for that too.


9 posted on 09/26/2009 2:09:39 PM PDT by The Great RJ ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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To: The Great RJ

That actually got repealed finally a few years ago. Was pretty short lived though because it was rapidly replaced by a higher tax and called something else.


46 posted on 09/26/2009 4:14:04 PM PDT by Domandred (Fdisk, format, and reinstall the entire .gov system. I am Jim Thompson.)
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