petro wrote:
sorry, but you have no idea what you're talking about. this is an
economic puzzle, not a political one. food, clothes, tobacco, gas/petrol
Then you neither understand politics, or economics.
one was part of my study, the other not.
And no, I don't claim to
At 4:44 AM + 9/12/00, Michael Shields wrote:
In article a0431010cb5e346ed8216@[207.111.241.215],
Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/13169.html
"Here's something to think about - while queuing up for petrol this
afternoon (yes - I confess to being a
Tim May wrote:
"Here's something to think about - while queuing up for petrol this
afternoon (yes - I confess to being a panic buyer) I worked out that
OPEC is charging $30 a barrel and our government is taxing us at
slightly over $150 a barrel - ouch!"
this is true, and similiar pretty much
Tim May wrote:
The quote said nothing to the contrary. Crude results in some
fraction of gasoline/petrol, and taxes are applied. His point was
that the taxes are about 4-5 times the cost of the underlying petrol,
which is about what it is in the U.K. (Last I heard, gas in the U.K.
is about
Ray Dillinger wrote:
Hmmm. It seems unfair to slap a huge tax on something if there
are *laws* in place requiring people to have and use it. I'm
thinking specifically of clothes, since you mentioned them. Is
clothing particularly heavily taxed?
not that I knew of. I included it for the
Tim wrote
At 10:35 AM -0700 9/12/00, Marshall Clow wrote:
Refinery: 17.2 [ I'm guessing this includes raw
oil costs ]
Retailer:4.2
VAT:12.64
Duty: 50.89
Total 84.9 [ this is the price at the pump ]
For all those speaking favorably of the twentieth century trends
toward voluntary mandatory (VM) taxes, a la the VM taxes on PCs to
support recording moguls, the VM taxes on paper to support writers,
the VM taxes on hamburgers to fund heart disease research, consider
where ever-increasing
