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From: kucharsk@dancer.Solbourne.COM (William Kucharski)
Newsgroups: rec.audio.high-end
Subject: IMPORTANT:  Call/Write your Congressman
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Date: 22 Sep 90 15:48:48 GMT
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This is an important plea to phone/write your Congressman and tell him how you
feel.  According to a report in this morning's Denver Rocky Mountain News, one
of the taxes being talked about by Congress (like the increased beer tax) is a
10% luxury tax on the cost of electronic items over $1000.  For example, this
means if you bought a $2700 pair of speakers, you'd have to pay an additional
$170 luxury tax.

Considering that high-end audio is one of the only areas of consumer electronics
which consists of only American products, that fact alone should, at least
theoretically, give the folks in Washington food for thought.
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