Comment Re:Proof that the system is corrupt (Score 0) 524
...make speculators be taxed even more heavily.
Your statement implies they are taxed heavily now, which is clearly not the case, at least in the USA.
...make speculators be taxed even more heavily.
Your statement implies they are taxed heavily now, which is clearly not the case, at least in the USA.
It's really very unfair. Here we were, just defending our rightful monopoly over all things rectangular with screens on the front, and these uppity bastards with their "patents" on "foundational RF technologies" that they supposedly "invented" are getting all touchy about it. WTF?
Problem with your thinking is....no tablet looked anything remotely like the ipad until the ipad came out. Look at the picture at the bottom of the link to see the blatant copying Samsung did. http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/08/30/apple_accuses_motorola_samsung_of_monopolizing_markets_with_patents.html
The rich folks have the easiest time of avoiding the tax.
How do you "avoid" a sales tax?
So, yes it does hurt the folks at the bottom more than at the top because the portion of their paycheck going to items subject to a sales tax are higher and the rich can easily avoid the tax by making their purchases out of state in a place that doesn't have sales tax if need be.
Do not buy so much then. No one can ever tell me why i need to be punished because i make more money than someone else.
...and the rich can easily avoid the tax by making their purchases out of state in a place that doesn't have sales tax if need be.
So i am going to hop on a plane and fly to Delaware to go grocery shopping? What nonsense. Curious, at what level is one "rich"?
Sales tax is a regressive tax -- it hurts the poor the most, and is barely a burden on anyone beyond middle class.
Huh? The sales tax is completely fair on everyone, regardless of income level, which is how taxes should be. Why should i pay more sales tax just because i earn more money than some else? So no, it does not hurt anyone more than anyone else, it affects everyone in the same way.
Yeah, because we all know that having a touch screen phone with a square screen and a grid for launcher icons is such a unique concept! Only a few dozen companies that had that sort of thing before!
Care to share some examples?
Really, Apple has a history going back 30 years of ripping off other people's technologies and then suing over it as if they had invented it. The sleazy tricks they have been playing with iPhone and iPad are completely in character. Again, care to offer some examples?
Only company from the list that I worry about is Apple. They're really been left and right everyone about patent issues.
Such as? I guess you mean Samsung....for blatantly copying the iPhone and iPad? Nokia sued Apple first. Kodak sued Apple first. Several Microsoft proxies sued Apple. Who is Apple going after?
Microsoft, not so much, unless some patent troll has attacked them first.
What planet are you living on? Microsoft and its proxies are the biggest patent trolls on the planet. how many Android makers have they shaken down for protection money? How about Microsoft funding SCO to go after Linux? How about all the mainframe software lawsuits against IBM by their proxies in Europe? Microsoft shill much?
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