Florida Proposes Taxing Local LANs

Vellmont writes "From the state that brought you the 2000 presidential election debacle, now comes the proposal to tax your LAN. The Orlando Business Journal is reporting that the the state of Florida is thinking about putting a 9% tax on LANs within the state. Exactly what they will be taxing isn't clear, since the tax amounts to 9% of... something. Will taxing the electrical wires within your home be next?"

Comments

Yeah Why?

[chornobyl]

Good thing I live up North though.

Why not?

[tjstork]

Why not tax LANs in Florida? Probably the only two groups that have them are NASA and Disney. Isn't the rest of the state just topless broads, fast cars and slobbering old people. :-)

Re:Fark says it best...

[SiliconJesus101]

"What more can you say about a state that can't even figure out voting?"

This is such bullshit to have repeated over and over. As a Floridian I can say that its a sad state of affairs to have misinformed and ignorant people such as yourself make such a general statement (or regurgitate one for that matter). Due to the overwhelmingly large population of elderly in this state I can say that the image is definitely not representative of every Floridian....just the elderly and mostly socialist....err...I meant Democratic retired population. This would be much like my early Linux experiences where I felt as though most Linux users were complete assholes that could only speek in their leet acronyms such as RTFM, FUD, AFAIK, IMANASSHOLE, etc.

Now back on to the subject at hand. I would normally doubt that this type of bill would pass except for the fact that the previously mentioned elderly would vote it in based on the fact that it doesn't affect them in any way at all. These are the same socialistic morons that voted in a classroom size reduction bill (with no clue as to where the money would come from), and a school choice program that has quite literally several buses that run with maybe 3 to 6 students based on their school choice, again with no clue as to where the money would come from. This kind of thing is just the opportunity for those bastards to provide their funding without dipping into their Social Security collecting pockets. If only more younger people voted we wouldn't get into these kinds of messes.