A slippery slope

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n2jtx join:2001-01-13 Glen Head, NY Reviews: ·Optimum Online	A slippery slope I guess every business that possibly has a tie-in to the Internet is going to push for their own tax. So far we have: RIAA music tax MPAA movie tax Newspaper tax Then we can add: Book Publishers tax for e-Books Search engine tax to prop up Yahoo! Streaming Radio tax to support failed radio stations Online Phone Book tax because of lost 411 revenue Software Publishers tax to make up for pirated software Sales Tax avoidance tax to support failed governments U.S. Mail evasion tax for e-billing payments -- I support the right to keep and arm bears.
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fiberguy My views are my own. Premium join:2005-05-20 kudos:3	Fair post.. ... the bottom line is what this SHOULD be telling people that run these businesses is that it's time to take a REALLY good look at their business model and, um, EVOLVE! While I am all out for preserving 'tradition', that has its limitation. I'm not one for keeping something around "for tradition" or preserving something simply becuase "we've had it for so long"... we had out-houses for a long time too, but they went by the wayside at the advent of indoor plumbing. Those who made outhouses simply moved towards making indoor toilets. Again, its just time to evolve and it's time for this country to live within its means. We don't need to hold on to things, like the outdated news paper, simply for jobs.. this country constantly has to reinvent itself.. this should be no different. It worked for the porn industry so I see no reason why news papers can't.
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