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From: nolan@tssi.UUCP (Michael Nolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Luxury tax on computers!
Message-ID: <1860@tssi.UUCP>
Date: 8 Oct 90 22:05:57 GMT
References: <4869@crash.cts.com>
Organization: Tailored Software Svcs, Lincoln, NE
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In article <4869@crash.cts.com> seanc@pro-party.cts.com (Sean Cunningham) writes:
>In-Reply-To: message from denbeste@bgsuvax.UUCP
>
> 
>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.

Well, if you haven't used an Interstate highway, flown on an airplane, 
visited a National Park, used the Internet, mailed or received a letter, etc., 
I'll recommend you be exonerated from your $2000.  
(Although it won't do you any good.)

The fact is, WE ARE ALL RESPONSIBLE FOR THE NATIONAL DEBT!!!!!!  And unless
you've not gotten any benefit from our Federal government, or anything it
supports/funds, etc., some of that debt has been used to pay for YOUR use of 
the infrastructure.  (We've all heard the shopworn line about what benefit
did we get from the space program, one answer being microcomputers.)

Have you communicated with your congresscritters about their votes on budget
matters?  If you're like most Americans, probably NOT!  

For that matter, assuming you're over 18, are you a registered voter, did
you vote in your state's primaries, and will you vote on November 6th.  The 
majority of Americans will NOT vote next month, although the current budget 
snafu in Washington DC may increase the vote turnout, for a change.

I hope somebody more connected will post the current status of the luxury
tax, assuming the most recent Continuing Resolution passes and is signed.
I agree that the tax as originally structured is unfair with respect to
the computer industry.

I spent a lot of time this weekend watching the House debate the budget on 
C-SPAN, and it was fascinating!!  One caller said it was 'better than 
Disneyland'!
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