Post-copyright: Digital Cash and Compulsory Licensing?

gojomo writes "AaronSw offers a compelling idea: use anonymous transferable digital cash to allocate the monies collected for creators in a compulsory licensing scheme, to avoid some of the potential problems outlined by other compulsory critiques. LawMeme calls it a "Proto Whuffie" but expects fake artists to sign up for the loot. I might call it "voucher socialism" -- but that's not necessarily a bad thing."

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Let's try this: tax the rich, feed the poor.

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Sales tax is not progressive. Income tax is potentially a progressive tax although it sure hasn't worked that way in the US in recent years. But upping sales tax is inexcuseable further burden on the poor.