Bill Stewart (2003-08-27 07:06Z) wrote:
At 08:54 AM 08/26/2003 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote:
I don't get it -- exactly what do they think they would be taxing? 9% of what? The bits and bytes that flow thru? The owners already paid a sales tax on the hardware, or is this like a yearly property tax? Bizarre!
The standard joke about how you tell a computer salesman from a used car salesman is that the car salesman knows when he's lying. These incompetents like taxing things, but if they don't know what they technology is about, they *really* *really* shouldn't propose special taxes on it until they know how to count the objects they want to tax.
I got the impression they want to tax the yearly depriciation of the networking equipment. Just as silly as, and perhaps even more expensive than, taxing the bits. -- No man is clever enough to Times are bad. Children no longer know all the evil he does. obey their parents, and everyone -Francois de la Rochefoucauld is writing a book. -Cicero