{"id":18328,"date":"2014-10-03T07:28:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T11:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=18328"},"modified":"2014-10-03T07:28:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T11:28:25","slug":"david-quentin-and-nicholas-shaxson-the-patent-box-proof-that-the-uk-is-a-rogue-state-in-corporate-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/10\/03\/david-quentin-and-nicholas-shaxson-the-patent-box-proof-that-the-uk-is-a-rogue-state-in-corporate-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"David Quentin and Nicholas Shaxson: The \u201cPatent Box\u201d \u2013 Proof That the UK is a Rogue State in Corporate Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Naked Capitalism<\/em> has the article <a title=\"Naked Capitalism article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2014\/10\/david-quentin-nicholas-shaxson-patent-box-proof-uk-rogue-state-corporate-tax.html\" target=\"_blank\">David Quentin and Nicholas Shaxson: The \u201cPatent Box\u201d \u2013 Proof That the UK is a Rogue State in Corporate Tax<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Perhaps most importantly, it is the very existence of intellectual property rights that spurs innovation, so there is no need for them to have a special extra subsidy. However socially useful a patented technology may or may not be, a patent is a privately-held and transferable monopoly over the commercial exploitation of an idea, and that monopoly only exists because the state chooses to enforce it. Bringing into being and protecting such privately-held monopolies is a way for the state to reward human creativity. Owning such an asset is not something the state needs to subsidize with a tax break; simply owning it should be enough.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This article makes it clearer to me than it ever has been the nature of the fight to protect &#8220;intellectual property rights.&#8221;\u00a0 You hear President Obama tout this protection in the trade deals he wants to foist on us.\u00a0 He excoriates countries like China for not protecting our companies&#8217; &#8220;intellectual property rights&#8221; inside China.\u00a0 In fact, &#8220;intellectual property rights&#8221; has turned into another scam to allow the oligarchs to avoid their fare share of taxes.\u00a0 They are using this as a weapon against us, and want us to fight for their ability to use it against us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naked Capitalism has the article David Quentin and Nicholas Shaxson: The \u201cPatent Box\u201d \u2013 Proof That the UK is a Rogue State in Corporate Tax. Perhaps most importantly, it is the very existence of intellectual property rights that spurs innovation, so there is no need for them to have a special extra subsidy. However socially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18329,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18328\/revisions\/18329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}