Terrestrial radio doesn't pay the recording artist anything. Radio only pays the songwriter and the publisher.

I don't believe the above is true. The first-sale doctrine is part of US Anti Trust laws. Any effort to shut down second hand markets could be prosecuted under anti trust laws. The whole point of these locks is price fixing.

First sale doctrine in the USA was invented for a non-physical things. It was invented for books. For physical things the doctrine doesn't need to exist because copyright doesn't cover physical things. First Sale has always been about things that cost nothing to "replicate."

... not houses. Software and houses are not similer.

Anything sold in a web "store" with a "buy" button is a sale. These products even have 20% off "sales." If they were honest about licensing or renting out games then they would be labeled as such.

How long w ill that last after a court declares they have to change all the buy buttons to rent buttons. People don't want to rent a $9.99 game.

Not really. If Antique sells copies of the Game of Thrones season 2 for 1 penny then they could limit their losses by quite a bit.

It has less to do with getting people to use cash than it is about keeping the surcharges down. When the surcharge was hidden Visa could raise the surcharge every year with no market consequence. Now if Visa raises the surcharge then people will use credit cards less. In theory this will cause the surcharge to go down. With lower prices retailers can sell more products and make more money.

Also where do you want to work? Are you willing to move to California? Do you need to stay in the midwest or southeast? Are you willing to move to Mexico City?

Most of the US federal debt has occurred in the last 20 years. looking further than that is silly.

Your source shows 1 year and mine shows 19 years. Your source is also only looking at benefits instead of total government spending. it isn't counting military spending, income from federal jobs, or farm subsidies. Your source also shows CA not bringing up the rear. Instead they are pretty much almost in the middle. That chart says CA gets $1.09 for every $1.00. More than half the states on that chart are getting more than that.

States are allowed to decide local taxes. They are allowed to have taxes lower than the taxes of another state. But when a state levels a tax on a particular thing they are not allowed to give discounts to in state businesses. In this case they were taxing investment income. Examples: Having zones with no property tax is legal. Giving bread growers a 0% income tax rate is legal. Giving bread growers cash is legal. A 6% sales tax on imported bread and 2% sales tax on local bread is illegal. (I'm not a lawyer)

19 years dammit. 2009 - 1990 = 19 I can't subtract anymore.

No it doesn't. It shows 9 years. Numero NINE. 1990 -> 2009

The Commerce Clause is a free trade agreement between the states. A lower tax rate for local companies means a higher tax rate for out of state companies. Protecting local companies with taxes hurts out of state companies. Commerce Clause is there to prevent this exact scenario.