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If IP Is Property, Where Is the Property Tax?
nweaver writes "In a response to the LA Times editorial on copyright which we discussed a week ago, the paper published a response arguing: 'If Intellectual Property is actually property, why isn't it covered by a property tax?' If copyright maintenance involved paying a fee and registration, this would keep Mickey Mouse safely protected by copyright, while ensuring that works that are no longer economically relevant to the copyright holder pass into the public domain, where the residual social value can serve the real purpose of copyright: to enhance the progress of science and useful arts. Disclaimer: the author is my father."
No, no, no. It's two cents. Two cents.
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But I would only offer him a penny for his thoughts.
You'd have to pay an infinite amount of money in tax (any percentage of infinity is infinite), but then you'd write off that expense, resulting in an infinite tax write off, bankrupting the gov't.
Works for me!
RS
Shoes for Industry. Shoes for the Dead.
That's the same as 0.02 cents, right?
Umm, I think that ship has already sailed.
--- Liberty in our Lifetime
and a President that's hell-bent on cutting any tax he can pronounce the name of
If that were true, there would not have been any tax cuts in the past 7 years.
paintball
Seems like I didn't see all the other coments saying exacly the same as mine...