taxes and intangible properties

Subject: taxes and intangible properties
From: "mail.thelinks.com" <sstouden@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 08:52:50 -0500
Copyright and patent laws infringe individual human rights and establish
worldwide  feudal rights! Ungated, free, access (UFA) to all creativity,
originality, knowledge, information, and technology (CO-KIT) is a universal
human entitlement (UHE) which crosses all societies, territories,
continents and nation states.  

Why is there no tax on copyright and patent monopolies? 

I propose, if these lousy freedom squelching monopolies are to be
continued, a gross revenue tax on copyrights and patents as follows without
exemption of anykind for any reason under any rationale:
>From patents and copyrights:

   0 - $  100,000 of patent or copyright gross cummulative revenues   =     1%
100,000 - $1,000,0000 of patent or copyright gross cummulative revenues =  45%
1,000,000 - 100,000,000 of patent or copyright gross cummulative revenues =85%
 >  100,000,000      of patent or copyright gross cummulative revenues  =  95%

This would discourage super class monopolies that strangle small business,
would allow the larger businesses to continue, but would equate the
competitiveness of small with large, would encourage America to rejuveniate
its ingeniuty, as it would not distract from the development of new,
patents or copyrights and as it would extract back into the government the
subsidies, grants, etc, which the government gives to the universities to
do research, because when that research produces a winner, the patent or
copyright holder will become a super class and the super class (non human
entity, created by action of a law of the state) will drive the gross to
the 95% levels of 
taxes in a few days, 
The mon and pop copyright or royalty holder would find the first $100,000
exemption, a nice way to get a new business of the ground.  A tax on the
cummulative gross revenue of the super class would be much easier to
administer than the current income tax, because it would not have to track
interlocking, but hidden common ownership and because the value of an
intangible property would be self extingushing the more it earned, the less
it would net. Furthermore, since the tax is on the coummulative gross a
aale, trade or other transfer of the patent or copyright or trademark would
carry with it the history of its taxability so that the revenues would
continue even when the ownership changes.  This idea would also eliminate
the question of the value of the intangible property, since its value would
be well established and continuing toward the objective of having earned
enough to be retired to the public domain.
   One more part of this idea would be that an copyright, patent or mark
owner could donate the patent to the public domain for a current year
income tax deduction of say 5% of the gross revenue taxes it has earned.
sterling stoudenmire
Freedom is "unbounded, ungated option" to engage tangible and intangible
human experience within the space defined by the farthest extent of
individual imagination.   s. stoudenmire, 6.22.2002

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