If the Philadelphia experiment stands, look for it to be emulated by other municipalities throughout the Republic. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at a novel way to shut down bloggers, courtesy of the city where Independence Hall stands.
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David, if you will give me an address, I'll start sending you $5 a month, because I know these blood-suckers are on the way. I'm serious.
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Why thank you, Sean. I never ask readers to send me money--I'll ask you to financially support others from time to time, but never me.
Examiner pays me for page views--if you want to help me out, sharing my links is the only tip I ask for. If you want to go the extra mile, let the editor at GUNS know you read my stuff. If you want to make me president of your fan club, send links to my stuff to your local editor and ask if they'd like another columnist.
Oh, and my mailing address is no secret--I don't put it on this site because I don't want to have to deal with powdered envelopes and such, but I generally will share it with people I share email correspondence with (see sidebar CV).
The Powers That Be are goose-stepping right into a major @$$-kicking. EVERYONE loves free speech, even if only for themselves.
Since trying to post a comment on Examiner is an exercise in futility these days:
All taken together, I lose money on my "blogging" and activism. If those parasites think I'd then cut them in for a piece of the action they are insane.
Philadelphia is a cesspool of authoritarianism and apparently has been since almost before the ink was dry on the Bill of Rights.
I hope she refuses to comply. It would set a bad precedent to give in to this latest violation of freedom of speech.
Hmmm... so, the City of Philadelphia wants to license a blogger as a business, do they? Why, I wonder what category said business would fit in to? Perhaps... "Journalist"? And, if so, the City should then be pressed for proper credentials. Fair is fair, after all.
Honestly, it might be worth the trouble to pay a $300 fee to become an "Authorized Journalist", with all of the attendant "rights and privileges"...
...Just thinking out loud here...
Isn't the IRS definition of a business an activity that makes a profit one year out of five? With a $300 business tax, then the business that nets less than $300 before the tax for five years then becomes a hobby.
Maybe she really does need to see an accountant.
All the Big Media have bloggers now, too.
Of course THEY have the money to pay any speech tax, if for some reason they're not exempt, like the NRA is from the DISCLOSE Act they collaborated in passing.
My wife works in a personal service trade, hairdressing. For some perspective, her business license is $150 for TWO years.
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