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Re: Taxes from Lego auctions?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 24 Dec 1999 22:48:21 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jasper Janssen writes:
> On Fri, 24 Dec 1999 20:18:45 GMT, Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net>
> wrote:
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> > Interesting, take me through how my charge card company would get a
> > stake in the profits when I charge a meal for a client? Are you sure
> > that's a workable suggestion? Do I have to give them an accounting of
> > how exactly that meal resulted in business and how much of the money we
> > got was profit.
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> Charge card? Electronic cash is EVIL. We should all return to barter
> as a payment system.
Barter is a fantastic system. It's only drawback is that it becomes
impractical as volume increases, and it requires all participants to have an
idea of the value of goods. It's only TWO drawbacks are... ;)
(seriously, though - barter is GREAT on a small scale. We do it all the time
over in B-S-T. It's just unworkable on large scale)
James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
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| (...) Charge card? Electronic cash is EVIL. We should all return to barter as a payment system. So that's no problem at all.[1] BTW, Richard, on the subject of thread-drift: You don't own the thread or even the subthread because you started it, this (...) (25 years ago, 24-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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