From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Mon May 31 2004 - 06:05:51 PDT
At 4:08 PM -0700 5/30/04, rertman@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>Wayne, the taxes are levied on the fuel
>producers and retailers, not on the end user.
>Of course, they pass them on to us end users.
>Since folks who make their own fuel
>in their garages aren't volume producing
>corporations and aren't dealers, the tax
>isn't levied on them. But keep this under your
>hat lest the gov't takes notice and
>taxes what you make in your garage.
I'm reminded of a Monty Python skit where several
British Ministers of Parliament are sitting
around trying to find a new source of taxes. The
one they hit on is of course sex because thats
the only thing they haven't taxed.
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Ryan Gill rmgill@SPAMmindspring.com
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