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Re: Carryon vs. checked (Re: WTB: 6557 (really, really badly) and 6861
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Tue, 9 Mar 1999 22:47:47 GMT
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On Tue, 9 Mar 1999 00:48:19 GMT, Jasper Janssen uttered the following
profundities...
> On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 04:34:02 GMT, Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net>
> wrote:
>
> > Shorn of
> > any connection to the market, government authorities run by unelected
> > officials can make remarkably stupid decisions in a repeatable,
> > consistent manner.
>
> Privatisation also has a history of making stuff a hell of a lot more
> expensive. Frex, the trains system here has been privatised a few
> years ago. Now, the gummint has to pay the NS more money to support
> them, than that the loss used to be when it was still wholly gummint
> owned. _And_ most of the non-profitmaking lines to outlying regions
> are being kicked. And why is that bad? because we're trying to reduce
> car-use around here, and if there's no reasonable Public Transport
> alternative, making cars more expensive [1] simply doesn't help.
>
> Jasper
>
> [1] Gas is well over $1 per _liter_ here. USAnians complain about high
> prices of $1 per gallon, which is over 4 liters IIRC. Car prices are
> less inflated, but still more expensive.
Had our budget today. Petrol will now cost about 66p a litre,
which is $1.05. An imperial gallon (4.54 litres)will now cost
$4.80 or so! A US gallon (3.78541 litres) will now cost GBP2.50,
or $4.02!!
Car tax to be reduced on small cars by 33%. 1.1 litre engine
is the cut-off. My car is 1.3 litre engine. So, I must now
spend more money getting to work, and it will be a year before
I see the benefit of 1% less income tax. (to be 22% from April
2000.....) And everything else they have taken away........
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