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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