50% Tax rate on Gas

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I've just found out that almost 50% of gas sale is on tax!

Look at this special tax on gas I've just found out!
Federal Exercise Tax : 18.6%
State Exercise Tax: 18.5%
State Sale Tax: 7.5%
These tax not include local and city tax!
So if you add fed, state, local and city rate, you get almost 50% of tax rate.

No wonder this is the best time to ride a bicycle to work!

"Red Cloud" <mmdir2002@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1c9e1197.0404202347.7bc06c5f@posting.google.com...

> I've just found out that almost 50% of gas sale is on tax!

And I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a pre frontal
lobotomy.

Dave

Too bad the tax breaks and corporate subsidies to the petroleum industries
are greater than the total of the taxes at the pump. Each gallon of gas you
buy at the pump actually costs the US taxpayer money, it ain't a source of
revenue.


"Red Cloud" <mmdir2002@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1c9e1197.0404202347.7bc06c5f@posting.google.com...
> I've just found out that almost 50% of gas sale is on tax!
>
> Look at this special tax on gas I've just found out!
> Federal Exercise Tax : 18.6%
> State Exercise Tax: 18.5%
> State Sale Tax: 7.5%
> These tax not include local and city tax!
> So if you add fed, state, local and city rate, you get almost 50% of tax
rate.
>
> No wonder this is the best time to ride a bicycle to work!

On 21 Apr 2004 00:47:25 -0700, mmdir2002@yahoo.co.uk (Red Cloud)
wrote:

>I've just found out that almost 50% of gas sale is on tax!
>
> Look at this special tax on gas I've just found out!
> Federal Exercise Tax : 18.6%
> State Exercise Tax: 18.5%
> State Sale Tax: 7.5%
> These tax not include local and city tax!
> So if you add fed, state, local and city rate, you get almost 50% of tax rate.
>


h'm. So it would seem that Mr. Blair's claim to be the "education" PM
has failed in this case.

-Luigi

"hooray for new math,
Ne-e-e-w math--
It won't do you a bit of good to
Review math--
It's so simple, so very simple
That only a child can do it!"
-Tom Lehrer, "New Math"

In article <1c9e1197.0404202347.7bc06c5f@posting.google.com>, mmdir2002
@yahoo.co.uk says...
> I've just found out that almost 50% of gas sale is on tax!
>
> Look at this special tax on gas I've just found out!
> Federal Exercise Tax : 18.6%
> State Exercise Tax: 18.5%
> State Sale Tax: 7.5%
> These tax not include local and city tax!
> So if you add fed, state, local and city rate, you get almost 50% of tax rate.

NO! Those rates are not percentages, they are cents per gallon. Even
if the price of gasoline at the refinery doubles, the taxes stay the
same per gallon.

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Red Cloud:
> I've just found out that almost 50% of gas sale is on tax!
>
> Look at this special tax on gas I've just found out!
> Federal Exercise Tax : 18.6%
> State Exercise Tax: 18.5%
> State Sale Tax: 7.5%
> These tax not include local and city tax!
> So if you add fed, state, local and city rate, you get almost 50% of tax
rate.
>
> No wonder this is the best time to ride a bicycle to work!

Trolling, trolling, trolling...

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On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:49:33 GMT, "AustinMN" <tacooperX@Xatt.net>
wrote:
>Red Cloud:
>> I've just found out that almost 50% of gas sale is on tax!
....
>> No wonder this is the best time to ride a bicycle to work!
>
>Trolling, trolling, trolling...

I've blacklisted Red Cloud for this reason. Anybody know how to set
a rule in Agent to automatically ignore any thread initiated by a
given person?

Maybe it's time for me to just go back to Linux and use a real
newsreader...but I haven't got enough spare round tuits to do it.
--
Rick Onanian

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 17:45:09 -0400, Rick Onanian <spamsink@cox.net>
wrote:

>I've blacklisted Red Cloud for this reason. Anybody know how to set
>a rule in Agent to automatically ignore any thread initiated by a
>given person?

Message:filter - its almost automaatic, although I don't bother to use
it in usegroups. Its enough to have it set to show thread, although
the self-referential threads get to be so deep that you have to move
the fields to see who is sending what.

Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...

>On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 17:45:09 -0400, Rick Onanian <spamsink@cox.net>
>wrote:
>>I've blacklisted Red Cloud for this reason. Anybody know how to set
>>a rule in Agent to automatically ignore any thread initiated by a
>>given person?
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 18:09:54 -0400, Curtis L. Russell
<curtis@md-bicycling.org> wrote:
>Message:filter - its almost automaatic, although I don't bother to use

Well, I currently can right-click and choose "ignore thread", which
is even quicker than that...just hoping to avoid seeing such threads
in the first place.
--
Rick Onanian