[geeks] Canadian Levies: out of control?

nimitz at owc.net nimitz at owc.net
Wed Mar 20 09:28:00 CST 2002


>> CDR's is enough to wait out that time. I predict that there will be a
>> lot of sales around the last three months of the year if this comes
>> into law. MP3 players, CDR's DVD blanks and so forth. 
>
>Maybe I'm a conspiracy theorist, but I'd wager a pint of your favorate
>beverage that that's exactly the reason this sort of legislation pops up
>from time-to-time.  I mean, look what the overhyped year-2000 problems did
>for the market in a lot of industries in the States in 1999.  You have to
>wonder if the same people that were screaming gloom-and-doom didn't have
>money invested in gold futures and storable-food stocks.

You might be right. fnord. ;-)

Mike Hebel
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