Slashdot | Florida Proposes Taxing Local LANs (fwd)

[Justin]

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.

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