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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 4670453, member: 27832&quot;]And the auction houses, and the dealers, and everyone else who wants a piece of each transaction.</p><p><br /></p><p>I understand that you understand the math. I just get a little knee-jerky over issues like this, after a few arguments with people who were <i>adding</i> various tax rates rather than <i>multiplying</i> them to &quot;prove&quot; that taxes make it impossible to earn a profit. (You know the sort -- &quot;I earn a dollar, Social Security takes 7.5% from me and 7.5% from my employer, Federal income tax takes 25%, state income tax takes 10%, sales tax takes 10%, and now I&#039;ve got only 40 cents left to spend!&quot;)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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