----- Original Message -----
From: Len Cranford
To: apopeeso@comcast.net ; pyrigenes
; Chris
D.
Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2015 8:27 AM
Subject: Absolute Certainty, Higher Taxes;
{For the life of me, I can`t
understand why today`s human with intelligence would live in a big city. Big
Cities are very predatory, chock full of Jews, Blacks, Socialist leaning
Lefties, Feminists, Criminals, Traffic, heavy Bureaucracy...and everything
just getting worse; Commie-Obama`s fellow "Tribe Gangsta"; Rahm
Emanuel wants higher taxes on YOU Chicagoans while HE skipped-out on HIS
OWN Taxes...Ah that Jewish attitude of exceptionalism. Goyim must PAY;}
Netflix
service in Chicago is about to get notably more expensive. On the hunt for new
revenue, Chicago's Department of Finance is applying two new rules that would
impact companies like Netflix and Spotify. One covers "electronically
delivered amusements" and another covers "nonpossessory computer
leases"; together they form a unique and troubling new attempt by cities
to tax any city resident that interacts with "the cloud. According to the
Chicago Tribune, streaming service providers need to start collecting the tax
starting September 1.
Between
the two it would total about 9% on gross sales.
"Amusement
taxes" are nothing new; if you go into a bowling alley or similar and
stick a couple of quarters in a pinball machine you'll see a tax sticker on
there -- that's the licensing for them. Those taxes have been around
forever and are sort of a "sin tax."
The
funny part of this is that "everyone knows" that the best and highest
use for the Internet is to consume porn, so I guess the view of the city that
this constitutes an electronically delivered amusement would arguably be correct.
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