Author should be Melanie Hicken.
What happens when we stop “wanting” things? What happens when we go back to a truly agrarian, barter-type of doing business to get around the egregious taxes? What happens when smokers quit or otherwise don’t pay the taxes on the cigarettes?
Don’t they realize that this sort of taxation is spurious and unreliable? Or is the word “tax” just another term taught to aspiring totalitarians to fund their aspirations for domination?
Illegal download sites will reap all the benefits.
When you run out of other-peoples-money you have to find new ways of getting more of it. This is one way of doing so, taxing something that can only exist in a computer or in an ephemeral context. Like a song; sing it and when you’re done all that remains is the memory of it.
The other question of course is this; What do they do when there isn’t any more other-peoples-money to take?
For me the answer is; that’s when they come after the tangible assets. And you know something they are right on schedule now with the Estate Taxes etc.
Internet proxies setup in other tax free states will boom.
I was in Pennsylvania and needed to buy some minutes for my phone. At the register, I found that PA now charges a dollar per card, plus sales tax. I put them back on the shelf, went out to my car, and bought the minutes on my phone only because I didn’t have cash in hand that minute. Done. Screw ‘em.
Amazon prime is generally less then iTunes. Movie rentals for instance are a dollar less on Amazon. The $79.00 a year Amazon prime fee is covered twice over using Amazon free 2nd day shipping.
I sent the tax bill to my state senator, told him he could pay for it...he voted for it so he wanted it. Never heard back from him. Time for some civil disobedience folks.
Unless the GOP house passes the internet tax enforcement bill that the Senate passed (with Grahamnesty and Mccain’s votes) the states have no way of collecting that tax from companies outside their borders.
Once again it all boils down to GOP treason.
Why is Apple charging tax when they don’t pay any?