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Refund of Long-Distance Telephone Taxes
pertelote writes "Over 108 years after financing the Spanish American War, the tax on long-distance phone calls is finally being repealed. The IRS is supposed to refund our last three years worth of taxes for both landlines and cell phones on our returns next year. The phone companies sued because they did not want the hassle of collecting the tax. The tax is no longer in effect on 31 July, 2006." Don't get too excited about a big windfall. From the article: "Consumers, who pay about 40 percent of the taxes collected, typically pay about $18 a year in excise taxes if they have a long-distance service and a cellphone. They will be able to file for a refund on their 2006 federal income tax returns."
Is the president going to play dress-up, get into an air force uniform, land on an air craft carrier near the Straight of Gibraltar and declare the Spanish American War finally over?
My work here is dung.
It's over? Does Bush know about this?
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You Americans have it easy. We Brits are still paying income tax, which was originally raised to pay for the Napoleonnic wars !
No but, yeah but, no but...
I wanna be a sandwhich too!
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Now that the US defense is no longer funded, the time for a new Spanish conquest has arrived.
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The good news is you'll get your $18 back since we don't need to fund the Spanish-American War anymore.
The bad news is they're going to add a tax of $5000/year to your phone bill to fund the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and possibly Iran.
The libertarian solution to the failures of capitalism is to apply more capitalism til the failures are fixed.
Hey, don't complain, it's one less tax.
:)
Now up here in Canada if we could get rid of this "temporary wartime tax" from WWII that we call "Income Tax"...
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I want my money to go toward funding the FBI teams that are going after Rep. Jefferson. I want them expanded by several hundred agents and to have what happened to Jefferson to happen to the entire Congress.
Jeeze dude, how much tax do you pay?
I'm not a nerd. Nerds are smart.
Pennsylvania still has the "Jonestown Flood Tax". A 18% excise tax on alcohol meant to raise funds for the flood that occured in 1889 or something like that.
18% sales tax on alcohol? No wonder why those people in Jonestown drank all that Kool-aid...
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
USS Maine: Blam! Glug, glug, glug.
America: WTF? Spain, can't you control your own damn harbor?!
Spain: STFU
Tomas Estrada Palma (head of Cuban Revolutionary Junta): Spain, I've got $150 million for you if you'll let us have independence.
Spain: STFU
American Democrats and Big Media: Free Cuba! Woohoo! Spain sux0rz!
Prez. McKinley and Republicans: WTF, we don't need dat shit.
Americans: Remember the Maine? Let's go kick some ass!
(April 11, 1898)
McKinley: Fine. Spain, GTFO of Cuba.
Spain: STFU
(April 25, 1898)
McKinley: No, YOU STFU! We declare war! As of... uh... 5 days ago!
Congress: Let's tax... inheritance! That oughta make us some bling-bling. Oh, and let's add one penny to the telephone bill. Only rich people have telephones, they can afford it.
(June 10, 1898)
US Marines: Ha ha, we ownz0r Guantanamo Bay! Freedom from torture for all!
(August 12, 1898)
Spain: Dios Mio! All our fleet are belong to you!
America: Yay, we win! Give us all your wine. And tapas.
Time Machine: Wowowowowow
(1982)
Congress: Let's set that war tax to 3% of the phone bill, that oughta keeps us in da bling-bling. But only until 1985.
(1984)
Congress: F Dat, we want to keep our bling-bling. At least until 1987.
(1987)
Congress: Mane, what were we thinking? Keep da bling-bling until... 1990?
(1990)
Congress: Too fun! Let's make it... permanent! Par-tee! Par-tee! Par-tee!
(2000)
Congress: That was stupid. Let's repeal the war tax.
Clinton: Ah agree. But there's nothing in this big ol' Bill (heh heh) about that edumication spendin' ah wanted. Y'see, it all depends on what the meaning o' the word "Spanish-American War Tax" is. Ah veto this Bill (heh heh, I cain't never get enough o' that joke, now come set on daddy's lap).
(2005)
Internet: Congress, you are too stupid!
Congress: Well, I guess we can try again.
Towards the Singularity.
You deserve to be fucked in the ass with a broken broom. You dont want to have children and save money that way but at the same time you want social security payments in your old age paid by other peoples children , be protected from foreign invasions by other peoples children , treated when you are sick by other peoples children etc etc. People who dont have children are parasites on society. I propose all the people who dont have at least two children should be disqualified from collecting any social security, be barred from emergency rooms even if they are keeling over from heart attacks and sent off to Iraq to be used for exchanging with any hostages the insurgents capture. Then these selfish bastards will realize why they should have children.
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