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From: brendan@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Brendan Mahony)
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Subject: Re: Luxury tax on computers!
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Date: 5 Oct 90 03:22:11 GMT
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In article <1990Oct4.203906.3559@eng.umd.edu>, russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes...

->HOW THE TAX WOULD WORK
->The luxury tax is a 10% tax assessed on the value of the following
->luxury items over the following threshholds:
-> 
->    Cars over $30,000
	[...]
->    ELECTRONICS over $1,000

gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:

>Fascinating.  If I want to buy a $25,000 auto, I don't have to pay any
>additional tax.  But if I were to buy a $1500 Mac Classic, I have to cough up
>$150 extra.

>This is BS.

No perhaps it is a statement about what the US government thinks about
pricing policies for computers :-) . You know perhaps paying $1500 for a
Mac Classic is a bit like paying $35,000 for a Mazda 323. The quality is
there, but value?

More likely they are thinking televisions, VCR's, and stereos with this limit.
In the computer realm the only pure "luxury" computers, games machines,
come in well under this limit!

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