Fight Against Chicago Streaming Tax Part Of Larger Struggle To Limit Government
One argument was that the tax violated the Internet Tax Freedom Act because the tax was not imposed on “automatic amusement machines”, which would seem to favor pinball wizards over hardcore gamers. The city does, however, have an annual tax on the machines, which seems a lot more practical than taking a percentage. Also, the City taxes live performances at a lower rate. The court was OK with that because live performances are different than experiencing things on the internet. Who knew?
On that issue of being taxed by the city even when you are not in the city, that is addressed by the Mobile Sourcing Act. And there was a Commerce Clause argument which went nowhere.. All in the plaintiffs seem to have put on a first-class effort, which to me is a little out of proportion to three bucks or so on the Netflix bill.
Trump Foundation Truth And Poetry
Now I’m not a Trump supporter by any means. I attended a rally in Worcester Mass in 2015, which I reported on here. He suggested in his speech that John Kerry screwed up in Iran so badly because he hadn’t read Art of the Deal. I followed up the rally by reading Art of The Deal myself. My conclusion, based on his own words, was that I did not want this man to be in charge of anything I was involved with including my country. Nonetheless, I am inclined to “give the guy a little”, as Tony Schrantz pleads. The most that can be reasonably extracted from the NY AG complaint is some lessons about how not to run a private foundation. The closing lines of the Bruce Hopkins poem sums it up pretty well.
The lesson here is obvious – exempt orgs and foundation law can be tricky.
Yet, running a private foundation is really rather straightforward, quite easy.
The Trump Foundation overlooked the greatest solution in this situation:
Hire a bunch of foundation lawyers, pay them well; that’s the safest alchemy.
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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.