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Old Nov 18, 2011 | 12:24 pm
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Originally Posted by jerry a. laska
I assume your ticket is a return ticket and the fee is being assessed for your entry into the US on your return.
*groans* Yes. Thanks for the info. It is a better explanation than AA would offer. AA CR's definition sounded a little shadier.

Originally Posted by hillrider
in the US we're still paying a federal tax on telephone that was a "temporary" one to pay for the Spanish-American war ...
Didn't we get a refund of that in 2007 under the Federal Telephone Excise Tax Credit?
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