Re: CA Assembly votes to triple car tax

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From: Joel Garry
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 06:23

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On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 20:39:37 +0000 (UTC), Matthew Hunt 
<mph@wopr.caltech.edu> wrote:
>In article <v3j36d8bnmvtf2@corp.supernews.com>,
>Kenneth Crudup <kenny@panix.com> wrote:
>
>> Heh. Don't forget about the CoL here; payments on even a purchased Benz
>> (C- or low E- class) are cheaper than my apartment, and any decent house
>> even more than that!
>
>And you can live in a car, but you can't race a house!

I can hear it already... "Today on Speedvision after figure-8 school bus
racing..."  :-)

Actually, in the '70s when they were moving the houses out from near LAX,
my friend and I saw a garage pass a house by going down the next block, and
we made jokes about betting on it... and about whether it was faster than
his Bug...

jg
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From: joel-garry@nospam.cox.net (Joel Garry)
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Subject: Re: CA Assembly votes to triple car tax
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