Time for a Tea Party?

In 2003, U.S. smokers paid the following amounts in tobacco taxes and MSA payments:

<A HREF="http://www.rjrt.com/legal/taxRates.aspx" target="_new">RJ Renolds</A>
$979.16 per second
$58,749.71 per minute
$3,524,982.89 per hour
$84,599,589.32 per day
$594,230,769.23 per week
$2,575,000,000.00 per month
$30,900,000,000.00 for the year

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Gas Taxes
Add $.184 per gal. Federal tax
<A HREF="http://gaspricewatch.com/usgastaxes.asp" target="_new">Gas Taxes per State</A>

The government imposes 43 different direct and indirect <A HREF="http://www.atr.org/taxbites/gas.html" target="_new">taxes</A> on the production and distribution of gas. The total tax burden amounts to <b>54 percent</b> of the price of a gallon of gas.

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So out of the average price of a<A HREF="http://www.atr.org/taxbites/bread.html" target="_new"> loaf of bread</A> of $1.09 in 1995, about 30 cents goes for taxes, plus another 5 cents on average for sales taxes

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11.2 percent of what you pay for your<A HREF="http://www.atr.org/taxbites/electricity.html" target="_new"> electric power bill</A> goes to state governments for these taxes alone.

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The<A HREF="http://www.mackinac.org/article.asp?ID=903" target="_new"> trucking industry</A> paid $5.3 billion into the Federal Highway Trust Fund in 1992.

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Reason enough for revolt <A HREF="http://www.atr.org/taxbites/beer.html" target="_new">BEER</A> taxes.

<b>It's too bad that's it's not as simple as throwing tea into the bay.</b>
E flipping nuff already.

<font color=red>!#&$</font color=red> ---<font color=blue><i><b>There's the facts</font color=blue> ....<font color=green> the twisted facts </font color=green>... the distorted facts</font color=blue>,...<font color=red>THEN THERE'S JOURNALISM!</font color=red></i></b>

Or worse yet when you think how much more you could have bought if it wasn't for all the taxes you payed.

<font color=red>!#&$</font color=red> ---<font color=blue><i><b>There's the facts</font color=blue> ....<font color=green> the twisted facts </font color=green>... the distorted facts</font color=blue>,...<font color=red>THEN THERE'S JOURNALISM!</font color=red></i></b>

Why heck, I am fixin to light one of my homegrown now!

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