I mean, do you have a problem with the concept of taxes?
Not me.
In fact, I think we get a pretty good deal in the States. Property taxes got a cop at my house within minutes of a break-in several years ago, and the fire dept. and EMTs are ready in case something bad happens. The town plows my road in the winter, then in the spring repairs damage that the plows cause. When my kids were young, each of them got 12 years of good education.
State taxes allow me to take the dog on walks in state parks at no charge. Federal taxes will someday pay for my heath care, and provides for the common defense, even if we invade a few too many countries.
Bottom line: I'm OK with paying taxes, even if it pisses off a lot of my fellow citizens in the lower 48.
But I have problem with some taxes that will probably soon be imposed. In England.
Seems the Brits are a little short on funds, and rather than cut off the royals and make them go out and get jobs like the rest of us, they are hell bent on taking the easy way out and taxing online books.
Online gambling companies such as Ladbrokes and William Hill based in Great Britain have been able to avoid the heavy British tax burden that other companies face by locating their software elsewhere, such as Gibraltar, where taxes are as low as one percent of profits. Nice deal all around, and the lawmakers in England have been OK with it.
But now tax-thirsty authorities want to force those companies to obtain a British-specific license (and fork over 15 percent of their profits), a move that will no doubt cost thousands of jobs and cut out the legs from under what has been one of the country's most successful businesses.
Unlike in the States, the online gambling industry in Europe is not broke, and fixing it will probably only make matters worse and drive a lot of decent companies out of business.
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Do taxes bug you?
I mean, do you have a problem with the concept of taxes?
Not me.
In fact, I think we get a pretty good deal in the States. Property taxes got a cop at my house within minutes of a break-in several years ago, and the fire dept. and EMTs are ready in case something bad happens. The town plows my road in the winter, then in the spring repairs damage that the plows cause. When my kids were young, each of them got 12 years of good education.
State taxes allow me to take the dog on walks in state parks at no charge. Federal taxes will someday pay for my heath care, and provides for the common defense, even if we invade a few too many countries.
Bottom line: I'm OK with paying taxes, even if it pisses off a lot of my fellow citizens in the lower 48.
But I have problem with some taxes that will probably soon be imposed. In England.
Seems the Brits are a little short on funds, and rather than cut off the royals and make them go out and get jobs like the rest of us, they are hell bent on taking the easy way out and taxing online books.
Online gambling companies such as Ladbrokes and William Hill based in Great Britain have been able to avoid the heavy British tax burden that other companies face by locating their software elsewhere, such as Gibraltar, where taxes are as low as one percent of profits. Nice deal all around, and the lawmakers in England have been OK with it.
But now tax-thirsty authorities want to force those companies to obtain a British-specific license (and fork over 15 percent of their profits), a move that will no doubt cost thousands of jobs and cut out the legs from under what has been one of the country's most successful businesses.
Unlike in the States, the online gambling industry in Europe is not broke, and fixing it will probably only make matters worse and drive a lot of decent companies out of business.
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