[Sussex] File sharing legal in Canada!

[Steve Dobson]

Mark

On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 02:13:22PM +0100, Mark Harrison wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steve Dobson" <steve at dobson.org>
> To: "LUG email list for the Sussex Counties" <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 2:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [Sussex] File sharing legal in Canada!
> 
> 
> >   1). A TAX is a percentage, so even a TAX of 1000% would still net the
> >       Government coffers nothing if you or I give the code we write for
> 
> Can you explain the term "Poll Tax" to me, please? :-)

Okay, so I meant _sales_ TAX.

> You may, rightly, claim that the Government called in "Community Charge",
> and only protestors and the media called it a "tax".

The "Poll Tax" was:

  a). An abusive use of a governments power,

  b). An example of the power of the voter, or

  c). Non of the above, but a skillful cover-up for what the Tories 
      didn't want you to notice at the time. [1]
 
> However, the term "tax" to which you are referring was a description applied
> by a protest site, not the government.

I was meaning the term "TAX" as a general term for any method a government
places to extract money from my (or your) wallet.
 
> Still agree that it's a spoof, though :-)

As I was agreeing with you, your only agreeing with yourself :-)

Steve

[1]
If the tories really had wanted to bring in a Poll Tax all they had to do
was first let the Councils run the rate re-assessments.  Remember that 
property prices had vastly increased over the previous ten years and 
middle-England, Tory voter would have had a nice big new Rate Tax to
pay.  Against that the Poll Tax would have been a blessing.