[Tfug] Enough of the Politcal Crap

[Ronald Sutherland]

Where did I get 6E9? well it assumes that software is 1% of the GDP so thats
how much tax has to be collected from software sales (not including
interest). hmm... I guess that works but it was an error in the original
thought. This can all be fixed if cash is devalued to vanishingly small,
then the debt is easy to pay. *right*?

But wait if I don't want to pay that tax I can barter, but food is the top
of my list and Tucson has few farms these days, well old people farms but I
can't eat them, *yek*...


On Nov 26, 2007 10:03 PM, Ronald Sutherland <ronald.sutherland at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I think open source users best keep up with politics even though I don't
> think our numbers are a voice enough to count. Its seems to me that Open
> Source is made with the oldest form of trade... the barter system. Big
> government can't tax it and big business is having huge problems cashing in
> on it, however open source may prove a viable means to kill a cash cow. Ten
> years from now what does it mean for the USA if the MS cash cow is no longer
> viable. When I use Linux I'm making choices that have political side
> effects, for example how the hell are we going to pay 6E9$ for a war debt if
> all this open source software can't be taxed.
>