<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 3/23/02 11:51:21 AM Eastern Standard Time, psnow@magma.ca writes:
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<BR>raw memory (RAM, memory sticks etc), blank DVDs, MP3 and other music players and, get this, $20 per
<BR>Gigabyte levy on hard disk space - that's $1,200 tax on a 60gig hard drive! Outrageous</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BR>Wow...I really must travel to canada sometime so I can sample the amazing potent form of crack cocaine they must have just developed. Even somebody smoking normal crack wouldn't come up with something that crazy, it being obvious what something like that would do to the computer industry. The whole idea of levying a tax of more than 100% of the purchase price of an item is nuts, taxes are designed to be percentage, not a multiple.
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