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Re: Not Surprised

How is this for a "temporary" tax?

Tax History Project -- The Phone Tax -- Gone but Never Forgotten

www.taxhistory.org/thp/readings.nsf/.../557559440437EDBC8525718B005ACCCB?...

Jun 1, 2006 - Last week the Treasury Department announced it would stop collecting the 3 percent federal excise tax on long-distance telephone service that Americans have been paying since 1898, when the tax was first levied to help finance the Spanish-American War.

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