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It's weird that your solution is to not make any money at all. Isn't the correct solution pretty easy to implement too? Just make the licensing fee apply only a
by btmorex 16y ago
It's weird that your solution is to not make any money at all. Isn't the correct solution pretty easy to implement too? Just make the licensing fee apply only after you've met minimum revenue requirements (like $10000 or something).
- JangoSteve 16y agoThat is by no means my solution. I agree that this law is unreasonable. However, if the law exists, then it sounds like it does apply to bloggers just as it applies to anyone else trying to start a business in Philidelphia (in this case, by start a business, I mean try to make money). Note however, that the people in this article did not disagree with the law and set out to protest it. They merely had no idea that they had to pay Philidelphia's licensing fee for making money before they tried to make money. And unfortunately for them, ignorance of the law does not beget exemption.
- billswift 16y agoRepeating an old comment of mine from Marginal Revolution: I forgot to mention that excessive regulation also makes it impossible to be sure you have satisfied them, as someone else pointed out in respect to the number of laws on the books, "`Ignorance of the law is no excuse' is a sick joke", because it is literally impossible to be informed of all possible legal/regulationary requirements. Does any one remember the problems Clinton had finding a Federal judge who hadn't accidentally broken the law about withholding taxes for child care workers. Posted by: billswift at Feb 5, 2007 11:44:38 AM
- anamax 16y ago> Does any one remember the problems Clinton had finding a Federal judge who hadn't accidentally broken the law about withholding taxes for child care workers. That's a bad example as that law is well documented in the tax returns. My parents knew about that tax and paid it. However, it remind them that the ruling class thinks that taxes are for the little people.
- jakewalker 16y agoSuch a law that applies only to publications that make a certain amount of money (exempting others) was rejected in a Supreme Court case called Minneapolis Star and Tribune Co. v. Minnesota Comm'r of Revenue, 460 U.S. 575, (1983).
- jakewalker 16y agoActually, though - - there it was a tax law aimed directly at the press, but only at press who earned over a certain amount of money. This law is aimed at anyone, so at that level of abstraction, Minneapolis Star probably wouldn't be violated (i.e., it's okay to have a tax law that taxes only those who earn at least $1,000, including the press, but not okay to have a tax law that taxes only the press who earn at least $1,000).