Lawyers for the states said they’re losing nearly $34 billion a year because of the physical presence rule, though estimates from the federal Government Accountability Office said the figure is much smaller.
A pet peeve of mine, is people saying that some entity of government, is “losing” money, due to an inability to tax some sort of activity.
This implies that somehow this money belongs to the government, and the government has an unalienable absolute right to tax absolutely everything.
Anyone agree? Anyone disagree, and think that government should calculate that they “lose x amount”, if something isn’t taxed, and then figure out a way to impose a new tax?
Your pet peeve peeves me similarly.
It drives me bat-shit crazy to hear that expression.
It doesn't “cost” the government a damn thing. It distresses them to no end that the people, who ARE the government, are allowed to keep any portion of the fruits of their labor.
They are thieves.