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It always is, it's just the definition of "people" that shifts.
> the payment processor (who deals with sales taxes rather than income taxes) should worry about the taxability of the transaction rather than the tax status of the recipient

A donation is not a sale of a good or service. This is not a question of sales tax collection.

Speak for your Tesla. My i3 weighs slightly less than my partner's Mini Cooper.
Re:Trying for 1 month but can't learn pixel art still on Saturday April 04, 2026 @04:16PM (#47642926)
Marx's labor theory of value very much still assumes a product of that labor to embody its value.
Re:The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent on Monday March 23, 2026 @06:37PM (#47496090)
Shocking display of economic illiteracy or warmed up Goldwater propaganda?
Not sensitive enough to change behaviors, unfortunately.
Re:Office app has changed to copilot and now I can't open files on Saturday January 17, 2026 @06:02AM (#46657047)
Strong New Coke vibes.
Re:How Postmodernism Killed Great Literature on Friday December 26, 2025 @11:03AM (#46393334)
Same with making the title of a Barthes essay a cornerstone of the argument.
Almost hourly, I am reminded that Jimmy Carter had to put his unprofitable inherited peanut farm in a blind trust.
> You can't just build a road without maintaining it.

Sure you can, just look at Indiana.

Re:Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification" on Sunday August 17, 2025 @04:32PM (#44934707)
The law reads like it applies to platforms required to do the checks rather than third party service providers.
Re:US AI Action Plan on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @12:49PM (#44661291)
Don't regulate it except to push political goals sure seems like a recipe for success.
In your analogy, YouTube is the paperboy and the video producer is the newspaper.
Switching to desktop version of the site seems to work in all the major mobile browsers!
Re:Germany ready to block Google Maps for patent infringement on Saturday March 09, 2013 @08:10AM (#5348298)
The source, Florian Mueller, is an "analyst" for both Oracle and Microsoft, so take this with mountains of salt.
Re:15-Year-Old Student's Ed Reform Plan on Thursday February 14, 2013 @04:53AM (#5218725)
Where are the Googlers qualifying for SNAP?