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To: Kaslin

Last I checked, home phone bills still included a tax originally placed to pay the bills for WWI.


2 posted on 05/18/2016 6:59:55 AM PDT by null and void ("when authority began inspiring contempt, it had stopped being authority" ~ H. Beam Piper)
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To: null and void

Your phone bill used to have a Federal tax levied to pay for the Spanish-American War. I think they only got rid of it relatively recently.


4 posted on 05/18/2016 7:17:39 AM PDT by catman67 (14 gauge?)
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To: null and void
Last I checked, home phone bills still included a tax originally placed to pay the bills for WWI.

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7 posted on 05/18/2016 7:34:11 AM PDT by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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