Bill Stewart (2003-08-27 07:06Z) wrote: > At 08:54 AM 08/26/2003 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote: > > I don't get it -- exactly what do they think they would be taxing? > >9% of what? The bits and bytes that flow thru? > >The owners already paid a sales tax on the hardware, > >or is this like a yearly property tax? > >Bizarre! > > The standard joke about how you tell a computer salesman > from a used car salesman is that the car salesman > knows when he's lying. These incompetents like taxing things, > but if they don't know what they technology is about, > they *really* *really* shouldn't propose special taxes > on it until they know how to count the objects they want to tax.
I got the impression they want to tax the yearly depriciation of the networking equipment. Just as silly as, and perhaps even more expensive than, taxing the bits. -- No man is clever enough to Times are bad. Children no longer know all the evil he does. obey their parents, and everyone -Francois de la Rochefoucauld is writing a book. -Cicero