Comments on: Old guard vs. the Net: Online sales tax push—and more proof that the RIAA owns D.C. and Obama, too http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/old-guard-vs-the-net-online-sales-tax-plus-and-more-proof-that-the-riaa-owns-dc-and-obama-too/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:28:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/old-guard-vs-the-net-online-sales-tax-plus-and-more-proof-that-the-riaa-owns-dc-and-obama-too/comment-page-1/#comment-1049033 David Rothman Sat, 02 May 2009 19:18:33 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/05/02/old-guard-vs-the-net-online-sales-tax-plus-and-more-proof-that-the-riaa-owns-dc-and-obama-too/#comment-1049033 Hi, Ving. I appreciated your note even if we disagree. If a bookstore is a corporation or otherwise separate from the proprietor, no, I don't think it should be taxed. I realize there are complications, but somehow the government has managed to deal with them in the case of magazine mailing rates, so why not. As for individual income taxes---well, I'm open to the possibility of adjustments in cases where the store's finances and the owner's closely overlap. <p> Tom Perilli? Alas, you still have not convinced me, <a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20090501/0209474714.shtml" rel="nofollow">given the questions raised in TechDirt and elsewhere</a>. <em>But</em> I'd love to see you write an essay for us justifying the Perilli appointment and the others and addressing the ethics questions. Care to? You could use your own name or a pseudonym. Know Tom Perrilli personally? That would make it more fun, just so you reveal the connection? Neighbor, perhaps? Like Mr. Perilli, I believe in copyright, and I'm really keen on vigorous action against, say, Pirate Bay-style operations---through diplomatic initiatives and otherwise. Adequate money for that kind of enforcement-related action, too, please! But the RIAA approach has actually backfired. Anyway please feel free to email me at drNOSPAMteleread.com or to call me at 703-370-6540. I have a busy mailbox, so phone if you don't get a reply. <p> Thanks, David Hi, Ving. I appreciated your note even if we disagree. If a bookstore is a corporation or otherwise separate from the proprietor, no, I don’t think it should be taxed. I realize there are complications, but somehow the government has managed to deal with them in the case of magazine mailing rates, so why not. As for individual income taxes—well, I’m open to the possibility of adjustments in cases where the store’s finances and the owner’s closely overlap.

Tom Perilli? Alas, you still have not convinced me, given the questions raised in TechDirt and elsewhere. But I’d love to see you write an essay for us justifying the Perilli appointment and the others and addressing the ethics questions. Care to? You could use your own name or a pseudonym. Know Tom Perrilli personally? That would make it more fun, just so you reveal the connection? Neighbor, perhaps?

Like Mr. Perilli, I believe in copyright, and I’m really keen on vigorous action against, say, Pirate Bay-style operations—through diplomatic initiatives and otherwise. Adequate money for that kind of enforcement-related action, too, please! But the RIAA approach has actually backfired.

Anyway please feel free to email me at drNOSPAMteleread.com or to call me at 703-370-6540. I have a busy mailbox, so phone if you don’t get a reply.

Thanks,
David

]]> By: ving http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/old-guard-vs-the-net-online-sales-tax-plus-and-more-proof-that-the-riaa-owns-dc-and-obama-too/comment-page-1/#comment-1048840 ving Sat, 02 May 2009 15:23:25 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/05/02/old-guard-vs-the-net-online-sales-tax-plus-and-more-proof-that-the-riaa-owns-dc-and-obama-too/#comment-1048840 Bookstores of any kind should not be taxed? Really? Well, then I should not have to pay income taxes, too. Oh, and just because a guy represents a client in a law practice doesn't mean that he's unsuited for public service. Tom Perelli is a good man and a superb lawyer. After the last eight years, he's the kind of guy we need at DOJ. Bookstores of any kind should not be taxed? Really? Well, then I should not have to pay income taxes, too.

Oh, and just because a guy represents a client in a law practice doesn’t mean that he’s unsuited for public service. Tom Perelli is a good man and a superb lawyer. After the last eight years, he’s the kind of guy we need at DOJ.

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