At 18:02 -0500 on 11/03/03, Robert Gray wrote:

>>Someone wanna 'splain how...that's legal?  If you don't pay anything
>>for it, how are they allowed to tax it?
>
>It's the law!  Obviously it's based on the item's value.  If it was
>based on the declared value, everything would be imported as "free"
>or a "gift".

And when's the last time anyone sold a pile of LocalTalk connectors for
anything more than $10, most of which, I'm sure, went to recover shipping costs?
-- 

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