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From: emcguire@ccad.uiowa.edu (Ed McGuire)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Luxury tax on computers!
Message-ID: <1990Oct8.233305.13888@ccad.uiowa.edu>
Date: 8 Oct 90 23:33:05 GMT
References: <4869@crash.cts.com>
Organization: CAD-Research, U. of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
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In article <4869@crash.cts.com> seanc@pro-party.cts.com (Sean Cunningham) writes:

> I don't owe $2K to ANYONE...I wasn't the one who decided to ring up the
> nation's VISAcard, and I don't think I should be penalized for some other
> peoples' short-sighted actions.

This was my first reaction too.  Then I thought about all the federal
subsidies which reduce my cost of living (through cheap gas, etc.) and
concluded that it's one reasonable way of looking at the national
debt.  That is, when we purchase subsidized commodities it's like "buy
now, pay later."
-- 
peace.  -- Ed
"Vote.  Because it's the Right Thing."