Wait till the rest of the world adds its taxes. The USA Admin said no taxes on the net
and then placed one.
At 11:42 AM 5/19/99 -0700, Patrick Greenwell wrote:
>On Wed, 19 May 1999, Dan Steinberg wrote:
>
> > I don't find this appalling at all.
>
>That's a shame.
>
> > It is indeed a very safe feature of the system. Consider the
> > alternatives. Something gets drafted that (despite good intentions)
> > created tremendous inequities accidentally. Imagine the fallout if
> > there was no way to right the wrongs. IMHO this is a feature not a bug.
> > Remember that it took a conscious <G> act of Congress to take this step.
>
>An agency(or in this case their contractor) collected what was at the time
>an illegal tax. The U.S. Congress then reotractively made the tax legal so
>that the funds could be retained.
>
>I apologize if I am simply restating what occured, but I am amazed that
>anyone could find that a "feature" rather than a bug.
>
> > They are your elected representatives. If you don't like their
> > decisions you have the power to vote them out of office.
>
>So I am told.
>
> > Just consider an alternative where you don't have those powers, where
> > decisions were taken by un-elected non-representative beings. Where
> > you had no immediate way to right wrongs. What would you call that:
> > ICANN???
>
>Apples and oranges.
>
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