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• The US Government at it Again
  What gets me is the fact that they want to basically pre-tax the items before they are even sold. How is that even possible?
  
  For starters, many users that play MMORPGs never sell their items from the game in the first place. And very much like the part in the article where they talked about an autograph from a celebrity but never selling it, the government has no right to tax on items where a profit was never made. What next, paying tax on your kids' construction paper art that they made because you could sell it to someone?
  
  Secondly, as a player in WoW, I know that selling items is against the ToS so, how could that even be taxed? There is no way I could sell my items without my account being in danger.
  
  The last part that really gets to me is how Cnet really doesn?t seem to fight or take the side of the consumer and seems to instead push the idea multiple times in the article of why these items should be taxed. Maybe it's just me but, I feel like it?s the beginning of the end...

  January 17, 2006

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