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From: cb@hlwpc.UUCP (Carl Blesch)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: True but irrelevant advertising claims
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Date: Tue, 17-Dec-85 13:09:30 EST
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> Another thing that annoys me about H&R Block is that they advertise
> that 75% of their customers BELIEVE they got a larger refund by going
> there. 

This one gets me too.  Regardless of whether they believe it or whether
it's really true, the name of the game is to pay the least amount
of taxes.  The amonut you pay or get refunded come April 15 is
irrelevant.  In fact, it's stupid to engineer large refunds.
That means the government has been holding your money for up to
(even over) a year interest-free.

But, I guess they're just playing to the great unwashed, who think they're
getting free money if they get a big refund.  As usual, subjectivity is
the name of the game.  I guess what I'm annoyed at, then, is the stupidity
of people, not H&R Block.

Carl Blesch