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.