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Subject:Re: LICENSE for WRITING required in LA From:Chris Tonjes <ctonjes -at- MINDSPRING -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 11 Nov 1997 15:05:47 -0500
This is not as onerous or uncommon as the previous writers would like us to
believe. I live in Virginia (probably the most conservative state in the
country), and in my county I must have a home occupancy permit and a
business license. In addition, I must also pay property tax on my
computers, furniture, and other hardware.
I think the LA tax rate is actually lower than mine...
And although crime is going down in most major metropolitan areas, I doubt
that the police have enough time to launch any investigations of
unauthorized technical writing or poetry reading.
These little paper work and tax annoyances are the price of independant
contracting.
-----Original Message-----
From: Susan K. Sylvia <susieq -at- AIMQUEST -dot- COM>
To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU <TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU>
Date: Tuesday, November 11, 1997 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: LICENSE for WRITING required in LA
>At 11:27 AM 11/11/97 -0800, Wally Glassett wrote:
>>Huber, Mike wrote:
>>
>>> Unfortunately, this one is true.
>>>
>>> Technicaly, if you keep a diary in LA and eventualy use material from
>>> it
>>> in work that gets published, you owe back taxes, and penalties. This
>>> one
>>> is quite absurd, and will be overturned, but it is, at this point,
>>> true.
>>>
>>> LA, rather recently, legalized the reciting of poetry in public.
>>> Bizzare
>>> place.
>>
>>Maybe the 'good fathers of the city' will take this to its logical
>>conclusion: levying taxes on thinking about writing.
>>
>>Even though I was born and raised in the LA area and have no complaints
>>about that, I left the area as soon as I could and have never wanted to
>>go back - Mondo Bizarro indeed!...
>>
>>Wally Glassett
>>
>
>I don't think bizarre begins to cover it. La-La Land of liberalism run
>amok sees fit to "legalize" the First Amendment to the Constitution by
>allowing public reading of poetry....?
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