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Old 05-26-2006, 09:52 AM   #1
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The Spanish American war is finally paid for!!
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Feds cut off phone tax after 108 years
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By Paul Davidson, USA TODAY

A pesky, century-old tax on your phone bill is finally being put to rest.
The Treasury Department said Thursday that it will no longer collect a 3% federal excise tax on long-distance calls and would refund about $15 billion to taxpayers.

The tax was imposed in 1898 to help pay for the Spanish-American War. It was designed as a tax on wealthy Americans, back when phone service was considered a luxury.

"It's not often you get to kill a tax, particularly one that goes back so far in history," Treasury Secretary John Snow said.
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Well its about freakin' time!! Now how many more taxes that were levied for specific purposes can we get rid of?

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Old 05-26-2006, 12:24 PM   #2
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$15 billion in over taxation?! Seems as though they haven't been accounting for this very well. Rather than refund the money just put it towards building the fence north of Mexico.
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$15 billion in over taxation?! Seems as though they haven't been accounting for this very well. Rather than refund the money just put it towards building the fence north of Mexico.
I'm cool with that.

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why is it that when taxes are passed they are on the books forever, but the hapless republicans fight like hell to get temporary tax relief???
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$15 billion in over taxation?! Seems as though they haven't been accounting for this very well. Rather than refund the money just put it towards building the fence north of Mexico.
For $15 billion, we can make it a high votage fence...and maybe moat too!
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no kidding. we should start a petition or something to that effect. I'm all for refunds but I'll give them the go ahead to use my money for this one.
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$15 billion in over taxation?! Seems as though they haven't been accounting for this very well. Rather than refund the money just put it towards building the fence north of Mexico.
For $15 billion, we can make it a high votage fence...and maybe moat too!
I got an e-mail yesterday that said the solution to all our recent problems was to dig a big moat along the entire US/Mexico border, use the dirt they dig out from the moat to raise up New Orleans, then take all those Alligators in Florida that have been eating people lately and put them in the moat.
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