zulu9812 opened this issue on Feb 20, 2005 ยท 75 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Mon, 21 February 2005 at 11:40 PM
The hidden taxes you are talking about are applied to the company as a whole.
Which makes the overall operation cost more -- which makes it more expensive to do business........which adds up to higher final product costs.
Oh, well.......I can see where this is headed.
You've got to change the system at its root. Otherwise, prices for items across the board -- not just for software -- will continue to be higher for our cousins in Europe.
About the only alternative way for the situation to change would be for the US to institute a bunch of socialist policies, beyond the socialism that we already "enjoy" over here. In other words, voluntarily pull our own competitive edge down. Commit economic seppekku.
Then we'd be paying a lot more for our gasoline and our software, too.