Posted on 02/11/2015 4:07:01 PM PST by Lazamataz
Licensing regulations reduce economic freedom by creating barriers to market entry. For example, in my current home of Philadelphia, bloggers are required to obtain a $300 permit from the city. Blogging is by no means a lucrative business. In fact, an estimated 80% of bloggers will never make more than $100 from their work. A city official ironically says Philadelphia “loves the self-employed”. These permit-happy bureaucrats fail to grasp basic economics: occupational licensing can be detrimental to the economy.
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Be careful what you wish for. Next thing you know, garage bands will need a license. That would be very uncool.
“A) How are they going to know that you are “blogging” from within their jurisdiction?”
If you had read the article you wouldn’t have proposed this question ....
“How can they enforce it? If the blogger uses a proxy server, how can they enforce?”
Read the article ....
Let me get this straight: You’re so anti-blogger that you don’t feel they’re entitled to common rights under the 1st Amendment? And much of it is due to the low cost of entry due to evolving technologies?
We only read headlines here, you didn’t know that?
You may be on to something there. The way more of us than them is a spooky thing. Do not shoot me down this is a Arab Spring kinda thing. Several hundred thousand people will overrun your 10K riot police.
If you file a Schedule C on your Federal tax form to account for the income, then they will know.
However, if you blog at your own expense and it’s just a non-business hobby, then you don’t need a license.
Now I’ve read the article and it doesn’t address my question in any way, shape or form. Perhaps you can show me the answer.
Glad you only have opinions and not authority.
I know our pool is almost all piss now
“Now I’ve read the article and it doesn’t address my question in any way, shape or form. Perhaps you can show me the answer.”
“That’s how the Philly bloggers landed on the city’s radar: Those who followed the law and reported their blog’s revenue to the IRS triggered tripwires set up to find local businesses operating without licenses.”
But you have to use to embedded link to find the factual article instead of the misleading headline ...
From the article:
“.... In fact,an estimated 80% of bloggers will never make more than $100 from their work. .....”
$100.
“We only read headlines here, you didn’t know that?”
I know but it is still fun seeing people react without knowing ‘the rest of the story’ ...
Of course I grew up with Paul Harvey and always look for the rest of the story.
As bloggers they are entitled to their say.
That does NOT grant them any greater status.
So many of them try to “be perpetratin’” like they are legitimate news sources.
They are not.
That’s my sole point.
Some smacktard at a library computer does NOT presume to inform us.
Good.
Half of 'em need slapped upside the head.
I went there and DID NOT see the sentence you quoted. Is it behind a paywall? Or do you mean I have to link beyond the article itself?
Well, they’re not getting rich off of it; $100 bucks, com’on ...
If you didn’t talk about Philly, they probably wouldn’t. But if you did, then that would probably start them checking on you ... :-) ...
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