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The federal government instituted a tax on long-distance phone calls to pay for the Spanish-American War.(The Week)(Brief article)

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The federal government instituted a tax on long-distance phone calls to pay for the Spanish-American War. Now the Treasury Department has agreed to stop collecting the tax, ...

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