If you expect that you tax bill would go down if you could opt of the services you don't directly benefit from, I think you would be mistaken. You would most likely end up paying more for other services that you do use, and therefore on the average people would end up paying the same amount of taxes. It takes is certain amount of money run the government and associated services, nothing is going to change that.
Tivo is certainly losing some revenue on the fact that people are able to easily add harddrives. Which does tivo make more on? A 80 hour unit for $399, or a 40 hour unit for $199? I'm sure plenty of people bought the 40 hour unit over the 80 hour one only because they knew that a $100 harddrive would give them over 120 hours.
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If you expect that you tax bill would go down if you could opt of the services you don't directly benefit from, I think you would be mistaken. You would most likely end up paying more for other services that you do use, and therefore on the average people would end up paying the same amount of taxes. It takes is certain amount of money run the government and associated services, nothing is going to change that.
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Tivo is certainly losing some revenue on the fact that people are able to easily add harddrives. Which does tivo make more on? A 80 hour unit for $399, or a 40 hour unit for $199? I'm sure plenty of people bought the 40 hour unit over the 80 hour one only because they knew that a $100 harddrive would give them over 120 hours.