Actually it was small tea smugglers that were to benefit most. At that time,
most tea was smuggled (imagine tea being that important to peoples lives!)
to avoid taxes to lower prices.
-----Original Message-----
From: John Hermanson
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 7:40 AM
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] Great Idea - but not today
It's about the East India Tea Company being given huge tax cuts to drive
small tea companies out of business. hmmm ;-)
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On 5/12/2011 7:51 PM, John Hudson wrote:
> I thought a Tea-Partier was someone who espoused the belief that they were
> Taxed Enough Already. Isn't the Tea in Teaparty supposed to be about being
> over taxed ?:-)
>
> jh
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Whitmire"<bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion"<olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 5:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [OM] Great Idea - but not today
>
>
>> You're reading what isn't there.
>>
>> I would never be so insulting as to accuse someone of being a
>> Tea-Partier,
>> even if he or she was one.
>>
>> Nor do I believe that because I chose XYZ, I'm right and those who didn't
>> chose as I did are wrong. I'm not nearly that arrogant.
>>
>> But I've gone as far down this road as I care to go. As I said, 'nuf
>> said.
>>
>> --Bob
>>
>>
>> On May 12, 2011, at 9:53 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
>>
>>> This is evident in the "I don't miss it"
>>> comments because it implies (to me, at least) that you've moved on for
>>> XYZ
>>> valid reasons (and they very well may be in your case as well as mine to
>>> a
>>> certain extent), therefore anybody who still uses those old technologies
>>> is
>>> somehow related to Sarah Palin and is a Tea-Partier.
>>
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