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  4. From: jacob@max.cc.brandeis.edu ( )
  5. Subject: Re: The Stamp Act and the DAT tax
  6. Message-ID: <1992Aug30.234916.9248@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
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  8. Organization: Brandeis University Math Department
  9. References: <1992Aug25.195347.21365@rdg.dec.com> <1992Aug26.045352.19855@cbnewse.cb.att.com> <1992Aug27.175440.21504@serval.net.wsu.edu>
  10. Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 23:49:16 GMT
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  13. In article <1992Aug27.175440.21504@serval.net.wsu.edu> yeidel@tomar.accs.wsu.edu (Joshua Yeidel) writes:
  14. >
  15. >What I don't understand is, why there's any political benefit
  16. >in the DAT tax.  I would think that the arguments against it
  17. >would be good electoral medicine, and the arguments against 
  18. >would make the pro-taxers vulnerable.  
  19.  
  20. In the past, when major record companies were American
  21. this could be seen as an effort to protect them against
  22. a "threat" made possible by technology produced you know
  23. where. Part of the larger protectionist thing, or something.
  24.  
  25.  
  26. Now that major record companies are owned by you know
  27. who, I'm not so sure...
  28.