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From: bmug@garnet.berkeley.edu (BMUG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Luxury tax on computers!
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Date: 5 Oct 90 19:54:16 GMT
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In article <14817@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman) writes:
>In article <4797@crash.cts.com> mdavis@pro-sol.cts.com (Morgan Davis) writes:

(lots of stuff about the surtax on computers over $1000)

One poster mentioned that a possible motive for this surtax on "luxury"
items like cars, jewelry, and computers is that those items above the
price points at which the tax kicks in are foreign-produced.

This is probably true for many of the non-computer items (and so far
as computers are concerned, the best selling ones under $1000 -- Nintendos
-- are Japanese-made).  If this is a ploy to help American companies,
I just have one question:

What will the surtax on a Cray X-MP be?

John Heckendorn
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