Intellectual Property Tax?

The Treatyist ^ | 7/15/2009 | TJ Bandrowsky

[tjbandrowsky]

The one thing I've noticed about much of the liberal agenda is that it doesn't really change their industries that much. Liberals, by being centered economically in intellectual property fields from the media to academia, don't have to deal with federal property regulation and don't have to pay taxes on their intellectual property. Someone that owns the rights to Gone with the Wind pays less in property taxes than a guy that owns a gas station. Instead of waging class warfare, we throw out this food for thought: why not simply raise further "revenues" by taxing and regulate liberal properties the same way they regulate and tax everyone else's.

[fortunate sun]

Conservative intellectual property is worth more, therefore a higher tax rate would apply.

[Superiorryan]

$2,000,000 for the woman now. Retried somehow.

[AFreeBird]

Intellectual property in the form of patents are already taxed. You gotta pay to get a patent, and you gotta pay to keep it current until it expires. USPTO Fee Schedule. Of course the idea is: If the patent is good and marketable, then the fee's will be nothing. But how many patents that are issued pan out to make serious money?

[tjbandrowsky]

That’s really, really funny - as well as true. Hmmm - maybe not such a great idea after all.