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Ohio Wants eBayers to Post $50k Bond
MacDork writes "CNNMoney posted a short article this morning about new Ohio regulations set to become effective May 2 this year. If you are in the state and selling on eBay, you will need to pay $200 for a license and post a $50,000 bond or face possible fines and jail time. Getting the license also requires a one-year apprenticeship. When asked to which eBay users this bill applied, the bill's author, Larry Mumper responded with these very specific guidelines.... "It certainly will not apply to the casual seller on eBay, but might apply to anyone who sells a lot.""
If you can't and won't regulate the crminals at eBay and PrayPal just tax the hell out of it.
If you ban guns law enforcement gets a whole lot easier. Want to find the criminal? Oh, he has a gun? Mandatory 5 years for that then we start trying to find evidence for other stuff (in this country we do this, to great effect - it's pointed out in information posters sometimes that even if someone runs past you and says 'here hold this gun for me' you still get the mandatory sentence even if it was only in your hand for a few seconds).
It was particularly funny when there was a sniper running around the US shooting random people. If they'd had sensible laws it would have been easy to find him - he's the guy with the gun, stupid. In the event apparently it took months because every dirt farmer with an IQ over 5 has one.
You are FUCKING INSANE!
but the average *law abiding* citizen without. How is this a good thing?
How is it a bad thing?
You are more than the sum of what you consume. Desire is not an occupation.
Does this sound like exactly the sort of wingnut I'm seeing in Minnesota? I mean, this is a guy who says his law "might apply to anyone who sells a lot" and "If someone buys and sells on eBay on a regular basis as a type of business, then there is a need for regulation." "As a type of business"? No ambiguity there, is there?
I completely disagree with that. If you are selling used items on eBay, the government has already collected taxes on that item at one time. I do not believe in double taxation. I think its a bunch of bull.
Taxes
income tax
sales tax
property tax
wheel tax
tobacco tax
alcohol tax
This is exactly what the founders of this nation were against - all these freaking taxes! Now, we just roll over and tell the government "Oh, go ahead. Rub my belly and tell me its good for me."
Why should the government be able to tax you repeatedly on the same item? Ever buy a used car? Thats not tax - its extortion!
-- If we don't stand up for our rights, now, there will be no right to stand up for them later.
Because I could be raped/brutalized/beaten it is OK to cary a gun and wave it around, in the middle of a city? What are the chances of this happening to me anyway? Shouldn't I also carry some friggin-hard umbrella in case a meteor falls on me? Maybe I'll just stop driving my car too. You know, I could have an accident. Or would you suggest I carry a gun in my car to shoot the bastard who caused the accident?
Seriously, those arguments are a bit silly, IMHO. If not silly, they're definately too paranoid to my taste. Besides, I live in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) and I see no reason to own and cary a gun "just in case". The more people fear other people and cary more guns, the more shootings will happen. Period.
If some kids feel like beating me, I'l try to run and scream for help. Or defend myself. But that is not likely to happen. And if it does, I certainly don't want these kids to beat me, take my gun and then shoot me.
You are more than the sum of what you consume. Desire is not an occupation.