For a number of items (mostly consumer goods and petrochemicals ) purchase tax made up a large proportion of the retail price.
Aganbegyan, Abel Inside Perestroika: The Future of the Soviet Economy (1990)
A ) The best and worst is the same game.
The Sun (2013)
All related terms of 'good and'
well and good
You say well and good or all well and good to indicate that you would be pleased if something happens but you are aware that it has some disadvantages .
good and proper
thoroughly
all well and good
If you say that something is all well and good , you are suggesting that it has faults or disadvantages , although it may appear to be correct or reasonable .
for good (and all)
for always ; finally ; permanently
for good
If something changes or disappears for good , it never changes back or comes back as it was before.
tree of knowledge of good and evil
the tree in the Garden of Eden bearing the forbidden fruit that Adam and Eve ate, thus incurring loss of primal innocence ( Genesis 2:9; 3:2–7)
tree of knowledge
the tree whose fruit Adam and Eve tasted in disobedience of God: Gen . 2, 3