G'day Bill,



On 31-05-95 08:16, Bill Grimsley said to Jeff Green



BG>> And Kennett too, apparently.  Before you start cheering too 

BG>> loudly though, you'd do well to consider how they're going to 

BG>> recover the lost revenue.



JG>> They put the price of a packet of cigarettes up by 60c.



 BG> That's just the usual Federal Budget milking of the cash cows - 

 BG> smokers and motorists.  Nothing to do with our local State Budget 

 BG> last week though.



I had that straigthened out for me at work today. The Feds took an extra
17c a packet in the federal budget.



Our State govt just took another 60c (???) a packet in response to the Qld
Govts move regarding share trading (they cut the tax on share trading in
half to equal the Qld move).



JG>> As I rarely smoke nowadays, it won't bother me until all the smokers 

JG>> quit. Then they'll probably tax something that will affect me. 



 BG> They don't already?  Pull the other one Jeff.  |-)



Hmmm, badly written. "Tax something even more" would've done the trick :-)



Regards...Jeff (jeff{at}grntrs.dialix.oz.au)



... Everything goes wrong all at once.



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