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California Assembly Approves Internet Tax
ClientNine writes "California could collect more than $1 billion a year by taxing Amazon and other online retailers if a bill approved by the Assembly becomes law. Assemblyman Charles Calderon, a Democrat from Whittier, says his legislation doesn't impose a new sales tax, but extends one that California should already have been enforcing. AB155 passed, 47-16, with the support of one GOP lawmaker Tuesday. It now heads to the Senate. Other Republicans rejected the bill because they said it would invite lawsuits, drive business out of California, and get the state entangled in the messy task of regulating the Internet."
"We're Broke, what should we do?!"
"Hmm, how about we 'extend' taxes online and piss off silicone valley?"
"OK, we'll extend the taxes, but you are not urinating on my tits!"
"Hmm, how about we 'extend' taxes online and piss off silicone valley?"
Silicon Valley.
Silicone Valley encompasses Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and Orange County.
Charisma is the measure of someone's ability to lie with a straight face.
How dare you malign the Holy Free Market and its divine prophets, the Corporations. If we just get government off their backs, these angelic entities will provide us with lucrative jobs and cheap products instead of doing what they do now, which is rape us, rob us, and invest all the money they stole from us in jobs overseas. I know this is true because they paid people to tell me so.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
The internet is the one sphere of human interaction where libertarianism seems to actually work, and I think the only reason it took off was because it's been a lawless free for all. Since the barriers to entry are so low for much of the internet economy, competition is the closest to free and open that humans have ever achieved; nothing like the real world equivalent. We are slowly ruining it with bandwidth caps and shaping, laws to protect imaginary property, and taxation.
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