He also introduced a 10 per cent surcharge on imports.
'Yeah, I'm putting a thirty per cent surcharge on it.'
And what can be done about this 20 per cent surcharge?
The 2007 town meeting considered a proposal to impose a three cent surcharge on every dollar of property tax revenue.
"The 10 per cent surcharge looks extremely high," he said.
This represented a 44 per cent surcharge.
In April, the Senate voted to reject the repeal of a 4.3 cent surcharge on the gasoline excise tax.
We charge all passengers first-class fare, plus a twenty per cent surcharge, and yet we haven't made a shekel from them, as you know.
On Argentina's $128 billion in debt, normal interest plus the 16 per cent surcharge by lenders comes to about $27 billion a year.
The system the Commissioner envisions would cost $203 million, mostly raised with bonds financed by a 35 cent surcharge on monthly telephone bills.