On Friday 11 March 2005 06:52 am, David Bandel wrote: > On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 20:14:33 -0700, Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050309-4689.html > > > > I don't know about you, but I can't even imagine a Republican governor > > proposing this kind of crap. > > So, Collins, how much are you paying for your downloads? > I pay $0.00. Multiply that by 5% (0.00 x .05) and I get a whopping > $0.00 I owe in tax. Even if you pay a little for a music download, so > what? I haven't heard you complain about the tax when you go shopping > downtown. No big deal. Governments everywhere need their tax. Ask > Bill Gates. M$ taxes you on _every_ system you buy from an OEM like > Dell, etc., whether you buy it with M$ installed or not. Complain > about that. That at least is illegal (per-CPU licensing agreements).
The bad part of all these internet taxes is the paperwork involved. It would be impossible for most people to comply... the little 'mom & pop' internet sales places, much less having every seller on eBay having to collect the taxes and submit them to various states. I used to sell a couple of software packages back in the 80's. I was living in MI and was once approached by AZ to collect taxes on the sales I shipped to AZ. (very little) I wrote back and said that there was no way I could afford the time and effort to fill out all the paperwork for that and therefore I would refuse to sell to anyone from AZ in the future. I never heard back from them... unfortunately I'm sure it didn't send them any message either. _______________________________________________ [email protected] Unsub/Pause/Etc : http://mail.linux-sxs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general
