Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!watcgl!kim From: kim@watsup.waterloo.edu (T. Kim Nguyen) Newsgroups: can.general Subject: That F'n Fed. Sales Tax is Gonna *HURT*!! Message-ID: Date: 13 Aug 89 05:36:35 GMT Sender: daemon@watcgl.waterloo.edu Distribution: can Organization: PAMI Group, U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 19 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! So much for tax avoidance and shelters. This one there's no escape from. If we are indeed paying the price for all those benefits "we" get, then I'd like to be convinced that that price is as low as it might possibly be. 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. How many days does that push back Tax Freedom Day for us??? -- Kim Nguyen kim@watsup.waterloo.edu Systems Design Engineering -- University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada