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- From: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk,alt.censorship,rec.audio
- Subject: Re: The Stamp Act and the DAT tax
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.173508.2362@rdg.dec.com>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 17:35:08 GMT
- References: <1992Aug25.195347.21365@rdg.dec.com> <1992Aug26.045352.19855@cbnewse.cb.att.com> <1992Aug27.175440.21504@serval.net.wsu.edu> <1992Aug30.234916.9248@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
- Sender: news@rdg.dec.com (Mr News)
- Reply-To: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua NH
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- |>In article <1992Aug27.175440.21504@serval.net.wsu.edu>
- yeidel@tomar.accs.wsu.edu (Joshua Yeidel) writes:
- |>>
- |>>What I don't understand is, why there's any political benefit
- |>>in the DAT tax. I would think that the arguments against it
- |>>would be good electoral medicine, and the arguments against
- |>>would make the pro-taxers vulnerable.
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- 1) Very, very few members of the public own DAT decks. The vast majority of
- them thus don't care about the tax.
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- 2) The major record companies and the recording industry are able to put up
- big bucks for campaign contributions and other forms of lobbying.
-
- --PSW
-