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Wow, even after you invest heavily initially to buy a house with your own hard-earned money, you are still supposed to pay the government a cut for renting it?

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• afreak 13y ago
  By that logic there should be no property taxes and eminent domain should too be tossed out the window. While taxes suck, property should not be exempt from it otherwise we'll have much further unfair taxation system.
  • judk 13y ago
    Parent was sarcasm, which doesn't work in text.
    • wpietri 13y ago
      Was it? How can you tell? To me it looked like general-issue IGMFY rhetoric.
      • mikeash 13y ago
        Poe's Law strikes again.
• auctiontheory 13y ago
  Perhaps. Did you use any of the resources and infrastructure of the economy and society to earn that money? Did you in any way use or depend on the legal system? The financial system? The roads? Internet? Phones? The financial system? Law and order? Was your education in any way supported by public funds? If you can answer no to every question, is the same also true for all of your paying customers?
  • auctiontheory 13y ago
    Oops. I must have "the financial system" on my brain tonight.
  • MAGZine 13y ago
    So when are we going to pay taxes for writing OSS? I mean, it was either taught to us by government-subsidized education, or we learnt it from the internet which is also government subsidized. The licenses which you license your software under are a product of the legal climate, generated by the legal system, etc etc etc. Look, all of this is ridiculous. I'm all for taxing business, but honestly, taxes on the house (the structure itself, the materials) have been long paid, and property taxes are being paid. If anything, I'd think that this would be a zoning issue, which would be handled by municipalities. But even then, I tend to agree that unless if your neighbors are taking issue with it, then taxes/fees should be kept at an absolute minimum, if not zero. e: on top of that, the money which he used to buy his house (with tax) as well as pay the annual property tax is ITSELF taxed by income tax. How many levels of taxing are appropriate? Honestly.
    • Xylakant 13y ago
      > So when are we going to pay taxes for writing OSS? Yes, sure, absolutely, we already do. It's a percentage of what you earned writing said OSS. I sometimes get paid by clients to write code that later gets open sourced and yes, sure, I pay regular income tax on that. If you didn't earn any money, well then the government cut is zero USD, just as it is when you give your room away for free to strangers.
      • MAGZine 13y ago
        I can't say I disagree with any of this, though it still feels wrong to otherwise pay taxes on something like renting a room in this instance. It's your property, what business is it of the government's?
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• bdcravens 13y ago
  Pretty sure Donald Trump and the Hiltons feel the same way.