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Re: [News] US Senator Wants to Tax FLOSS

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 07:54:18 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> __/ [ Roy Schestowitz ] on Thursday 10 August 2006 07:43 \__
> 
>> Senator calls for tax on Open Source software.
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| US senator Robert Cash wants to attack the problem of declining revenues
>>| due to a form of tax evasion based on the use of 'Free Software' by
>>| instituting an Equivalence Tax - taxing free software at the same levels
>>| as its more expensive proprietary cousins.
>> `----
>> 
>>         http://www.danaquarium.com/article.php?story=20050809092207718
> 
> Update: this might be a hoax. People say that there is no senator that goes
> by the name Robert Cash, but I only realised it after I had posted the OP.

There is a Robert Cash running for State senator in the 34th district of
Pennsylvania.

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