CDR: Re: Germans to tax PCs for Lars

David Honig honig at sprynet.com
Fri Sep 8 08:19:09 PDT 2000


At 05:10 AM 9/8/00 -0400, Tom Vogt wrote:
>David Honig wrote:
>> >not quite right. it is NOT the government that collects, and this is not
>> >a tax. there's a "non-profit" organisation called GEMA that collects and
>> >re-distributes these things.
>> 
>> So if you don't pay GEMA who *are* those folks with the guns?
>
>GEMA will most likely sue you. but since GEMA isn't the government,
>that's a civil case.

The "right" of GEMA to sue is enforced by folks claiming to be from
your "State" who carry guns, no? 

A level of indirection doesn't change anything.  









  









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