Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!maytag!vlsi!watale!mims-iris!tom From: tom@mims-iris.uucp (Tom Haapanen) Newsgroups: can.general Subject: Re: That F'n Fed. Sales Tax is Gonna *HURT*!! Message-ID: <3249@watale.waterloo.edu> Date: 14 Aug 89 15:10:07 GMT References: Sender: daemon@watale.waterloo.edu Reply-To: tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu.UUCP (Tom Haapanen) Distribution: can Organization: WATMIMS Research Group, University of Waterloo Lines: 24 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