How about the fact that in some instances we already pay out more than 50% of our income in taxes? How about that?
Seriously, look at all the taxes, both open (income tax, sales tax) and hidden (car registrations etc.) we already pay. -- Timothy Heald Analyst, Architect, Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: 202-228-8372 C: 703-300-3911 -----Original Message----- From: G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 2:11 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Yet another attempt to f**k the consumer. US taxes online media downloads Everyone hates to pay taxes. But the fact is: we pay a small percentage tax on goods we purchase. An online game is simply a good...that we've purchased. It's great that it's not currently being taxed.....but what special quality does this particular good have that makes it necessarily exempt from a regular sales tax? > E-Books, Music file downloads etc. may soon be taxed in the US. > At least this doesn't affect anyone else. > ---------------------------- > "15 states and the District of Columbia currently tax online media, > with others eager to begin their own taxes. The RIAA estimates that > domestic sales totaled $503 million last year, but that figure doesn't > include movies, e-books, online video games and other forms of digital > media. Perhaps the most interesting point in this article is the way > states, looking to start taxing online media, are trying to use the > interpretation of previous law and apply it to digital media. In > Washington, politicians are using their definition of software > (already taxable), 'a set of coded instructions designed to cause a > computer...to perform a task,' to justify taxation of online media > because 'they cause some action by a piece of hardware to play them.'" > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:204297 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
