Joined: Sat Mar 19, 2005 7:50 pm Posts: 10229 Location: WA (aka Waaaaaaaahhhh!!) Gender: Male
Saw this on the news yesterday:
Did you know?
The US government is still charging a relatively small tax for using your land line telephone? It only amounts to pennies per call, but nationwide it generates about $6 billion/year.
The tax was started to fund a war that ended 107 years ago (I forget which war). Anyway, the tax is still alive and kicking, and Americans are paying taxes to fund a war that no longer exists. Clinton vetoed a bill to repeal the tax in 2000.
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:19 pm Posts: 39068 Location: Chapel Hill, NC, USA Gender: Male
That's like the little old couple still leasing their big black, dial phone from the phone company for $40 a month.
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So, you mean there are taxes that were started to fund a particular thing...but now that particular thing no longer needs funding and we still have the tax?
I bet the list of taxes like this could fill volumes of encyclopedia.
Joined: Sat Mar 19, 2005 7:50 pm Posts: 10229 Location: WA (aka Waaaaaaaahhhh!!) Gender: Male
Athletic Supporter wrote:
So, you mean there are taxes that were started to fund a particular thing...but now that particular thing no longer needs funding and we still have the tax? I bet the list of taxes like this could fill volumes of encyclopedia.
I wouldn't be surprised. I bet that money now goes to buying Senator's yachts and the like...
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