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Article #6832Re: OUTRAGEOUS tax on car rental in Las Vegas
From: Ken Lee
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 00:00
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In article <4pl6m3$2el@cleon.cc.gatech.edu>, pas@cc.gatech.edu (Paulo Santos) wrote: >The rationale, as someone already explained, is that it is much easier to >raise taxes on non-voting non-residents than on voting residents. >Evidently this is unfair, and something similar (taxation without >representation) has led to a nice party is Boston a few generations ago. If I recall correctly, the Boston Tea Party occured after the British *lowered* taxes on tea, thus making illegal smuggling unprofitable. ------- Ken Lee, http://www.rahul.net/kenton/index.html
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 107518,1213395e8f3fd258 X-Google-Attributes: gid107518,public X-Google-Thread: 106595,1213395e8f3fd258 X-Google-Attributes: gid106595,public From: kenton@rahul.net (Ken Lee) Subject: Re: OUTRAGEOUS tax on car rental in Las Vegas Date: 1996/06/12 Message-ID: <4pl77o$1ik_002@514.rahul.net> X-Deja-AN: 159733066 references: <4pkip3$ks0@cive.stanford.edu> <4pl6m3$2el@cleon.cc.gatech.edu> organization: http://www.rahul.net/kenton/index.html newsgroups: misc.consumers,ba.consumers