stever@tekgen.UUCP (Steven D. Rogers) (07/27/86)
well, they are at it again, first they tried a tax on audio
cassette tape, now this!
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reprinted without permission from STEREO REVIEW, August l986, p.5
TAXING TAPE RECORDERS
A U.S. Senate subcommittee has passed S 1739, a bill to put a
royalty tax on all audio tape recorders. If the full Senate ap-
proves the bill, manufacturers' prices could be increased by up to
25 percent. The proceeds are to be given to record companies.
Subcommittee members who voted for the tax are Senators
Charles Mathias (Maryland), Edward Kennedy (Massachusetts),
Arlen Specter (Pennsylvania), Orrin Hatch (Utah), Patrick Leahy
(Vermont), and Alan Simpson (Wyoming). If you oppose the tax,
you should make your views known immediately to the committee
members and--more important--to your own senators. You can get
their names and addresses, and telephone numbers by calling
the Audio Recording Rights Coalition: 1-800-282-TAPE.
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This tax is bad enough by itself but,
if we let this one get by, guess what is next?
yup! TAXES ON VIDEO RECORDERS TO GO TO THE MOVIE INDUSTRY
TAXES ON PERSONAL COMPUTERS TO GO TO SOFTWARE HOUSES
TAXES ON COPIERS TO GO TO PUBLISHING COMPANIES