Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!sunray!glee From: glee@sunray.UUCP (Godfrey Lee) Newsgroups: can.general Subject: Re: That F'n Fed. Sales Tax is Gonna *HURT*!! Message-ID: <6862@sunray.UUCP> Date: 17 Aug 89 14:33:34 GMT References: <1989Aug13.161201.7535@tmsoft.uucp> <150002@teecs.UUCP> Reply-To: glee@cognos.UUCP (Godfrey Lee) Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada Lines: 41 In article <150002@teecs.UUCP> oneill@teecs.UUCP (Sean O'Neill) writes: +---------- |In response to article <>, article |<15884@watdragon.waterloo.edu>, |writes: |+---- ||+-- |||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. ||+-- |+---- | |+---- ||Phone less. Drive less. |+---- | |+---- ||+-- |||Alcohol taxes. ||+-- |+---- | |+---- ||Drink less. |+---- | | What about the new 9% Funeral Tax?? | | Die less?? :-) | |No, that can't be the answer. The longer we live, the more tax we pay. |I guess the government has got you coming and got you going. +---------- How about this? Phone, Drive, Drink, and Die somewhere else. That's what the British did in the '60, drove all the high earners out of Britain! -- Godfrey Lee P.O. Box 9707 Cognos Incorporated 3755 Riverside Dr. VOICE: (613) 738-1338 x3802 FAX: (613) 738-0002 Ottawa, Ontario UUCP: uunet!mitel!sce!cognos!glee CANADA K1G 3Z4