Subject: Re: [lpny_manhattan] Taxes hidden by law Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 23:39:23 -0400 To: From: Bob Armstrong On Tue, 27 May 2003 22:17:33 -0400, Gary Popkin wrote: >=A0I'm old enough to remember when it became illegal for airlines= to itemize >=A0the taxes that are included in the price of a ticket. This sort of thing is as disgusting as it is common . One of FDR's brilliances was to hire the head of marketing at Gimbel's who came up with the notion of splitting the rake for Social Security -3 pennies each from employee and employer= ! As if splitting it did anything other than double the amount of accounting both on the productive side and the government side= . Yet people can't see thru such stupid subterfuge . --=A0 =A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com -- 212-285-1864 NEW : Newsletter : http://cosy.com/K/CoSy/NL200305.htm Ultimate Computing Environment : =A0http://cosy.com/K/CoSy.htm=A0 A WTC vision : http://cosy.com/CoSy/ConicAllConnect/ =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A02003/05/27 11:16:10 PM