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Bull$hit lessons to be learned from romantic comedies!
Let's see...Windows 2000 and XP are still the DE FACTO standards for business computing outside of media companies...and Mac is swallowing up everything else!
Proving that the 3% lie was just that. A lie. Mac is nearing, I'll bet, around 30 - 35% of the market now. And what about the business myth? All game studios and Hollywood are Mac or rapidly switching to Mac.
Tax us by the mile? Well, let's see about taxes in general:
Article I, Section 9, Paragraph 4 forbids direct taxation on anything but a finished good. Amendment XVI wasn't ratified by two-thirds of the States, so it's legally not a law. Top that off, Amendment XVI doesn't allow, anyways, for direct taxation, only income taxation from revenue received. So this idea is un-Constitutional all around. The law also wants to put GPS devices in everybody's car? Okay, but where in the Constitution is a DMV allowed? Speed limits? Highways? Many things related to cars are un-Constitutional, but...sorry, Americans are dumb, stupid people and deserve to be destroyed. I keep forgetting they love failure.
(Understand, historically, my sarcastic, but truthful, statement. The Revolutionary War was only fought by a little over a fourth and a little under a third of the colonists. The Civil War had an outright rage against it, and hence Lincoln and Davis enacted forms of the draft to get everybody concerned. As for the World Wars that we had no business fighting...well, Japan did attack us, so I can understand only attacking Japan and smashing them to pieces...Americans were, during these two wars, isolationists. And that's what we need to be now.)
How would a tax like this work at all? Okay, first, the Federalites (not to be confused with a Federalist, which is a Constitution lover) illegally install a GPS device in the cars against the will of the citizenry, making them pay for it (like digital TV). Then people go ahead and go about their daily driving habits, only to get a bill so high in dollars they can't pay it. So, many families then cut down to one car, travel only within their walking range distances, or move into the city for goods and services, again, via walking. Or even start to use public transit. Okay, so now the tax is simply taxing the poor farmers or retired folk, and it gets worse, as they start to carpool and jointly pay the illegal tax, or they hire a service. Speaking of which, public transit and taxi cabs might be just as bad, because they'll be taxed by the mile, too, meaning, instead of an illegal $2 or whatever a smelly, crappy bus ride is now in a city, it'll be around $10, and nobody will ride it. Then comes the long-haul shipping. Everything will go up in price. $10 postage stamps, $10 apples at the store, $10 loaves of bread, etc. And what will be outcome? Hopefully, people get wise and DON'T PAY THE TAX! It's un-Constitutional and it's illegal.
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