Daryl wrote --
I remember working at Burger King over 40 years ago, the sales tax (more aptly, "the hamburger tax"...which part of went to the budget for the local Convention and Vistors Bureau, and the rest to the city, county, state, and the federal government) was 7
Sales tax in WV is six per cent. This is on everything, except for food
for immediate consumption. If you buy a pound of hamburger in a grocery
store its not taxed, but buy a hamburger in a restaurant, that is taxed.
But I brought death and destruction with me.
You sure that The Grim Reaper wasn't in tow with you?? :P
I was beginning to wonder about that.
I either visited people just in time or hastened their demise.
Too bad the young people can't comprehend that. Admittedly, growing up, we thought we knew everything. Now, we find out, we didn't know anything.
I think every generation has thought the older one was backward and
stupid and the younger generation had all the answers.
As Mark Twain is credited with saying: When I was 16 I thought my father
was the dumbest man alive. When I reached 25 I began to marvel at how much
he had learned. (That's a bit mangled).
Joe
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