From: Gene McAloon 

On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 10:16:06 -0400, "Frank Haber"
 wrote:

>With Blighty at 17.5%, and Canada at 15 or so, I don't feel to bad about our
>NY State + City sales tax, just raised to 8.65%.  Highest in the nation?
>Maybe.
>
>(National "excise" taxes are rare, though, except for things
like liquor,
>tobacco and gasoline.)

Perhaps it is just dawning on you that the US, among developed nations,
taxes itself the least. That has been true for the last fifty years despite
the ranting and raving of the far-right that we are being taxed to death.

Gene

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