Taxes don't go away
Here's an interesting tidbit: 3 Percent Fee On Cell Phones Started 107 Years Ago
For those of you who've been through public schools, back in 1898, the USS Maine blew up in Havana harbor in February 1898, and the United States used it as a reason to go to war with Spain. The only mention you might have heard about it was Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders charged up San Juan hill. Of course, the why and everything else about it was obscured.
But I digress. In order to help pay for the Spanish-American War, the United States levied a "temporary" luxury tax on telephones to help pay for the war. But of course, we are still paying for it today.
Which just goes to prove there is no such thing as a "temporary tax." And you wonder why I like the tax cuts. It puts more of my money back in my pocket.