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IP, whether enforced by the government or by private contract, is not a user fee. It's an incentive. To quote the Constitution, IP exists "[T]o promote the prog
by Dracophoenix 5y ago
IP, whether enforced by the government or by private contract, is not a user fee. It's an incentive. To quote the Constitution, IP exists "[T]o promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings"
How else does such a person learn to discover or create without his thoughts? Taxing IP is taxing the discoveries and the works of a person. Ergo taxing IP is taxing one's thoughts.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> IP, whether enforced by the government or by private contract, is not a user fee. “private contracts” aren't an enforcement mechanism, they are a basis for government enforcement. That aside, no, IP (and property generally) isn't a user fee, its the privilege of excluding others from some conduct relating to the subject of the property right. A tax on property is a user fee on the service of providing and enforcing that privilege.
- goodpoint 5y ago> Taxing IP is taxing the discoveries and the works of a person False. "IP" is the right to exclude other people from using such work.