I hope I have your attention, because this is BULL with all cap's!!!! I don't ***own*** the software in question, so why should I pay for it? In my state (Oklahoma), I had to pay for years for the business property I used. Why should the owners (licensors) of music (or software for that matter) be any different? Charge THEM, not the licensee. That's tantamount to charging a building renter property tax!!!
I can't stand how deep the governments in this country dig into my pockets. I work very hard and lose a large portion of my income to them. I think they are already priced a little higher than they should be and if the prices goes up, I might just go back to LimeWire. Cheating on politicians and greedy music execs at the same time is somehow appealing.
Boo hoo hoo! I hate taxes! Boo hoo! You pay sales tax on everything you buy, right? Do you go online snivelling about it? No. You drive a car? Do you go online snivelling about paying EXCISE TAX every year because the gumint says you gotta pay for the right to use the roads that YOUR tax dollars built? No. Why the fjork is everybody so surprised that states are beginning to tax online purchases. That's how states like Washington and Texas which don't have personal income tax (and trust me, I lived in California for 20 years, you DON'T want that) generate revenue.
Didn't mommy and daddy tell you than money doesn't grow on trees and that all those lovely civil services that you so ignorantly and gleefully consume have a price? Or did they just reinforce that silly a$$ notion of entitlement that most of the posters here embody in their inane snivelling. Why don't you stop listening to AM talk radio, turn the f'ing 500 channels of rubbish off, take a walk in the real world and at least read something every day. What a bunch of friggin' sheeple! No wonder things are ging to hell in a handbasket, everybody forgot how to think!
Give a rest to the ignorant comments taking up space here about "no taxation without representation" and "taxes don't do anything for me." Guess what? The state legislatures passing these taxes ARE your representatives.
So you think the new tax is wrong, then DO something about it. Trot out your well-typed arguments on the phone with your state rep. Play the democracy game instead of crying with your friends on Cnet.
As quoted, "Davis recited aloud the definition of computer software from Washington's tax law and said he believed that data files, like an executable program, cause a computer to 'perform a task.' He said, 'I think it's our policy that that's exactly what a music file does in order to hear it.'
A music file doesn't CAUSE the computer to perform anything. The action of CLICKING on the file will cause the computer to PLAY the file. That's it. How can they get away with this?
Since there is no sales tax in Oregon, I doubt a download tax could even be considered here (ie, there is no "existing" sales tax law to reinterpret or twist into a download tax). If CA were to impose such tax, Apple should relocate!
The US Constitution the "Supreme Law of the Land" in article one section 9 prohibits the taxation of anything that is exported, that cross state lines. Look it up, read it for yourself. The so called Use tax that Washington State and others rely on is in fact an illegal tax, if you have ever read the original court case that spawned it you'll find out why. The states get away with this illegal tax collection becaesu no one has the time or money to really go after them, of course geting a fair judge is the bigger problem, Judges know whers their pay check comes from, well who signs them because they really come from We the People don't they? It won't take an act of congress to change this but it will take a constitional amendment. Refuse to pay any illegal taxes.
This is just one of many violations of the Constitution by the GOP
Like the US Constitution has ever stopped republicans from breaking the law before. These guys no no bounds and until they get kicked out of office, this bs will continue.
There is no free lunch in life!, for it is the average wage earning citizen's lot in life!, to be forced to pay for all government's mismanagement and follies, to detract from life's little luxuries, by as many times as is deemed necessary, thus we are overtaxed from the cradle to grave and beyond!
For alas, we have now truly forgoten the reason's behind the infamous "Boston Tea Party", taxation without representation is pure evil!
Taxes, we can't live with out them, but is now proving almost impossible to live with them, as the impoverished debt driven government at all levels, demand ever more, as their irresponsible increasing annual debt borrowings, allied to the usual waste and other politically motivated unsustainable follies, seek unlimited financing, at triple the rate we can afford to pay for them!
Oh well, the like all things, the good times, when they turn into any corner, usually crash and burn , to the detriment of all, at the end!, for such is life!
If the Government wants to increase its revenue and is looking at the Internet, don't think iTunes think Porn. Porn is the biggest money making machine on the internet, start the tax issue there.
if a company is selling digital products... do people only pay taxes in the state that the business is located in? --- or do they track state taxes for each state(like paper catalogs) and charge the tax amount according to the state that demands tax on digital goods?
I have never understood the concept of a "sales" tax on utilities, such as water, gas, electric, and both land and cellular phones. These are services for which there are no "stores", per se, from which they may be purchased, and, of which, there are no alternatives, except to do without. I might understand an initial sales tax on the "purchase" of such, but to do so on a monthly (or other billing period) basis seems punitive (this same logic is being used to create and fund the so-called, and, ultimately, futile, Health Reform Bill, which will charge the US Taxpayer who does not participate in the program and who does not have (or want or need) insurance a clearly punitive 2.5% of their Federal gross income; why aren't those who don't want or need automobile insurance charged? Won't *that* solve the national debt? (yes, I sneaked in political rhetoric on a completely different - - but is it really so? - - subject . . . deal with it)).
Why does it seem like we have to defend ourselves from the government at every turn? It seems everyone needs defense on everything. From discrimination, theft and piracy, to even audit defense. Things are pretty messed up! http://www.davisanddavisllc.com
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Didn't mommy and daddy tell you than money doesn't grow on trees and that all those lovely civil services that you so ignorantly and gleefully consume have a price? Or did they just reinforce that silly a$$ notion of entitlement that most of the posters here embody in their inane snivelling. Why don't you stop listening to AM talk radio, turn the f'ing 500 channels of rubbish off, take a walk in the real world and at least read something every day. What a bunch of friggin' sheeple! No wonder things are ging to hell in a handbasket, everybody forgot how to think!
So you think the new tax is wrong, then DO something about it. Trot out your well-typed arguments on the phone with your state rep. Play the democracy game instead of crying with your friends on Cnet.
A music file doesn't CAUSE the computer to perform anything. The action of CLICKING on the file will cause the computer to PLAY the file. That's it. How can they get away with this?
Look it up, read it for yourself.
The so called Use tax that Washington State and others rely on is in fact an illegal tax, if you have ever read the original court case that spawned it you'll find out why.
The states get away with this illegal tax collection becaesu no one has the time or money to really go after them, of course geting a fair judge is the bigger problem, Judges know whers their pay check comes from, well who signs them because they really come from We the People don't they? It won't take an act of congress to change this but it will take a constitional amendment.
Refuse to pay any illegal taxes.
For alas, we have now truly forgoten the reason's behind the infamous "Boston Tea Party", taxation without representation is pure evil!
Taxes, we can't live with out them, but is now proving almost impossible to live with them, as the impoverished debt driven government at all levels, demand ever more, as their irresponsible increasing annual debt borrowings, allied to the usual waste and other politically motivated unsustainable follies, seek unlimited financing, at triple the rate we can afford to pay for them!
Oh well, the like all things, the good times, when they turn into any corner, usually crash and burn , to the detriment of all, at the end!, for such is life!
the Internet, don't think iTunes think Porn. Porn is the biggest
money making machine on the internet, start the tax issue there.
--- or do they track state taxes for each state(like paper catalogs) and charge the tax amount according to the state that demands tax on digital goods?