Posted on 11/28/2012 9:51:24 AM PST by BO Stinkss
A coalition of 125 celebrity musicians, including pop singer Katy Perry, have joined forces with anti-tax advocates including Grover Norquist and the National Taxpayers Union (NTU) to oppose an intellectual property "reform" bill that critics charge expands government to the detriment of the free market. Opponents say the Internet Radio Fairness Act, being pushed by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) and Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), would mandatorily lower the licensing fees paid by Internet radio giant Pandora, moving the royalties system further away from a free market and instead entrenching a system in which government sets compensation rates while picking winners and losers. It has anti-tax and free market groups including Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), NTU, the Taxpayers Protection Alliance, the American Conservative Union and Citizens Against Government Waste crying foul on those grounds. In his letter to members of Congress, ATR's Norquist asserts "the standard in IRFA moves in an even worse direction towards forced below-market rates." Artists are concerned that if passed, the bill would amount to government artificially limiting the earnings that musicians - celebrity and not - are able to make from their trade in the marketplace. That has Perry and others including rapper Ludacris, Britney Spears, Rihanna, Cee Lo Green, Sheryl Crow, Maroon 5, Pink Floyd and Rush speaking out via a letter published this month in Billboard magazine. In that letter, the musicians assert that Pandora is "asking Congress once again to step in and gut the royalties that thousands of musicians rely upon." The signatories note that for over a decade, they have accepted a discounted royalty rate from Pandora because they are "big fans" of the service. The House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the proposed legislation this week, and proponents
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I am sorry but this is just to fn funny.....
She just got caught up in that ‘gay black man sexual fantasy’ thing.. Ideology isn’t important to her until it hits her in the pocketbook.
FOAD, Hollywood idiots. You reap what you sow.
yuck
GAH!
BUTT watching her pain as her man-god is confiscating her wealth that she knows she earned with her own talents and time, well, that is PRICELESS!
TAKE their money and the other 50% who do not agree with her man-god QUIT $upporting her in ANY way.
Stupidity may not burn, butt it has consequences.
HAHA!
I’m with Laz on this one. NOT GUILTY!!
“Sheryl Crow”
Haha, all of a sudden “1 square Sherryl” is against government intrusion into HER pocketbook!
Indeed. Never could see the connection she had with that skinny, pasty, strung-out looking British guy to whom she was briefly married.
Was it John Wayne who said? “Life is hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid”
She looks like she could need a good laxative.
Katy is a woman running out of time, she gotta get every dime she can now. She is just going with the flow.
Hit it, yes. Talk to it, waste of valuable air and time.
Keep in mind, they’re protesting against a bill being promoted by Congress-critters, not their Dear Leader “lord and savior” Obamaclaus. They’re obviously looking to him to ride in on a white horse and save them by granting special privileges to allow them to make obscene profits. After all, they supported him. This is how crony capitalism works.
Ha!
I’m a girl, so the only way I’d consider ‘hitting it’ would be with my car! :)
She voted for it, and actively campaigned for it, so whats her problem?
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