As noted by another commenter. 44% of Americans don't pay any income taxes, so the "vast majority" is already eliminated. I'd also question your assertion about paying 20-30% taxes. On 30% on $100,000 (not the actual rate, just an example) would be taxed this year as 30% on $76,000 which is only 22.8% effective tax rate.
The actual tax rate for $100,000 gross would be at the 12% tax bracket for tax year 2018 (for couples filing jointly) after the 24,000 standard deduction is applied.
Without doing the additional math, I suspect anyone subject to a 30% effective tax rate is already making enough money to pay the accountants to make that number not happen (as is what this whole story is about).
At some point, don't the ISPs risk their common carrier status? They like the protection of saying they don't know what the traffic is that is flowing around their network, then they try to work with the media companies to block downloads of copyrighted material. If they know it is copyrighted material from an unauthorized source, then they no longer can claim to not know what the traffic is.
Either you give me access to the internet to pass whatever I want and are not liable for what I pass, or you get to filter it and become liable when illegal content gets through.
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As noted by another commenter. 44% of Americans don't pay any income taxes, so the "vast majority" is already eliminated. I'd also question your assertion about paying 20-30% taxes. On 30% on $100,000 (not the actual rate, just an example) would be taxed this year as 30% on $76,000 which is only 22.8% effective tax rate.
The actual tax rate for $100,000 gross would be at the 12% tax bracket for tax year 2018 (for couples filing jointly) after the 24,000 standard deduction is applied.
Without doing the additional math, I suspect anyone subject to a 30% effective tax rate is already making enough money to pay the accountants to make that number not happen (as is what this whole story is about).
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Assuming you're not having a laugh. Troy Hunt does this.
https://haveibeenpwned.com/
It's not MY car. I own a Pontiac. I'm only licensing it.
http://www.autoblog.com/2015/0...
There ARE no poor neighborhoods near this house. Bartonville, TX is upper-middle class suburbia.
At some point, don't the ISPs risk their common carrier status? They like the protection of saying they don't know what the traffic is that is flowing around their network, then they try to work with the media companies to block downloads of copyrighted material. If they know it is copyrighted material from an unauthorized source, then they no longer can claim to not know what the traffic is.
Either you give me access to the internet to pass whatever I want and are not liable for what I pass, or you get to filter it and become liable when illegal content gets through.
Aren't the "protected computer" owners responsible? The RIAA tells us that "making available" means any copying of that file is your fault.
Under the RIAAs rules, the computer owners have violated their own privacy by making that data available.