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To: The Reaper who wrote (196905)	4/19/2009 1:53:09 PM
From: TH	Respond to of 306849

Reaper, True. You cannot avoid tax, but you can minimize it. I may not make a long term commitment to that area anyway. As MD said, the best play may be to rent for a while, and I'm considering that. I just may not actually change my state of residency <g> Thanks TH

To: The Reaper who wrote (196905)	4/19/2009 2:37:04 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Respond to of 306849

U.S. Import duties do greatly increase the cost of carbonated sugar drinks. What you're observing is a combination of the inefficient high cost mark-up in Mexican retail, combined with the low world price of cane sugar . . . as compared with the greatly inflated price of cane sugar in the U.S., due to import duties, which makes the inferior high fructose corn syrup less expensive to use, but still far more expensive than the world market price for cane sugar. A 2-liter bottle of Coke in San Diego on sale at Von's $1.67. Everyday price at OXXO (Mexico's 7-11) here in Tijuana where I've got a place, 14 pesos ~$1.08