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Originally Posted by Charbax
Of course this new copyright tax system needs to be worldwide. I think it is very fair, . . . Simply put, pay intellectual propriety through taxes.
This proposition isn't insane. We already pay for TV, radio, libraries, museums, galleries, sculptures and other common good through taxes in many developed countries.
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You are correct that a lot of our tax dollars goes to support institutions that we may consider superfluous to our daily lives, such as the Museum of Beer Cans and Bottles. Sadly, that occurs because the American voter keeps reelecting congresspersons who can bring home that bottle of Billy Beer and who really do not think about what is best for the country as a whole.
But what you really are proposing is not a "fair" system; it is just a way to subsidize something you support that no one else may be interested in supporting.
A much better solution would be to require everyone to pay percentage of their income (on a progressive sliding scale) as a tax and then select how the tax collector can spend it. Thus, if I want to support starving children and universal health care but not writers and artists or the Beer Museum, I could make that election. You, OTOH, could support writers and artists and let the children starve. (I wonder what would happen if no one supported national defense.)
