From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxi!houxz!ihnp4!ihlpb!burris Newsgroups: net.music Title: Re: Re: tape tax - (nf) Article-I.D.: ihlpb.309 Posted: Fri Feb 18 18:01:07 1983 Received: Sun Feb 20 03:44:09 1983 #R:nmtvax:-19200:ihlpb:6900022: 0:1291 ihlpb!burris Feb 18 13:40:00 1983 Here's one you have overlooked: What if the primary use for the tapes you buy are for recording live concerts. I often am asked to record for bands so that they will have demo material to present when trying to obtain jobs. Do you believe that it is fair for me to subsidize the record companies for losses that THEY estimate that they are losing on record sales. This is obviously not applicable to this situation. Ok, then what about the recording studios which also use this tape. Perhaps they will be able to obtain the equivelant of a retail tax number; but then maybe they won't. If so who will pay for the enforcement. YOU an I that's who. There goes another tax. Audio recorders have been around for many years. I didn't hear the record companies screaming when they were making millions. Now that the economy is not so good all businesses are suffering loss of income. Why should the record companies be any different. I would be curious to see how much of this tax money is going to trickle down to the engineers and musicians who originally produce this music. Until you have been walked on by a record company for publishing rights, etc. you should be careful in your assumptions about the poor record companies loss of revenues. Dave Burris ihlpb!burris BTL - Naperville