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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">That's surprising... Let see, the minimum tax in the USA is 15% and the median income is about $50k. So that means the average amateur radio crumudgen is already paying about $7000 per year for many things I am sure he is equally unhappy with. Yet ham radio for many of these hams is one of their favorite avocations. I find it hard to understand how they are then unwilling to contribute about 0.005 of what they contribute to the rest of society or 0.0007 of their income and are so dead set against contributing anything to amateur radio.</span></blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>What you fail to realize here is that if people actually had to write a check for the amount of taxes they pay every year, there'd be a revolution. And that's one of the main reasons income tax taken out prior to you getting your check is so popular with the politicians. </div>
<div><br></div><div>--jc </div>