Posted on 12/22/2012 10:42:57 PM PST by nickcarraway
You’re not paying attention to the instructions.
If I had to pay that much tax on garlic I’d be a smuggler too. In my diet live garlic is one of the four food groups.
Since coffee also gets it own food group with me, it doesn’t leave much menu variety. Simplifies shopping, though.
What?
You're infatuated with and distracted by her perpetual smile.
What?
This has to be a typo--I don't think there's that much garlic on earth. Maybe it's 7,000 pounds?
This article doesn’t make sense. Three million dollars in taxes? On seven thousand pounds of garlic? The product would have to sell for $500 per pound just to break even.
Six years for smuggling garlic????
Wow, that stinks.
It’s pretty obvious.
You just take two very large... uh... pots, and then you... uh... get them very, very hot... and... uh... oh, they should be full of water, I guess, and... uh...
"Dainbramage.....quit trying to smuggle with me you perv!"
9.5 tons of garlic. the 7,000 pounds was just the tip off.
9.5 tons of garlic. The 7,000 pounds was just the tip off.
Ten dollars an ounce in taxes? No wonder they tried.
I think it turns out to $1 an ounce—but that still seems absurdly high.
Then again, it may be the level of protectionism that the English need to make their own garlic-culture viable?
If accurate, no wonder it led to smuggling!
Ok, so it’s not just me drooling over a food net show hostess...
I’m still getting about $10.587 per ounce. I have not allowed for Britih Tons.
Even allowing a British ton at 2240 pounds I get 9.45.
Someone needs to help us out for math this early in the day or tax rates on garlic imports in Britian.
Ah, you’re correct. That’s an exorbitant import charge or something’s not adding up right.
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