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Comment by tikkun | Hacker News Reader

There are 43 comments so far. I was expecting thousands of comments.

Comments can be with your name, company name, or anonymous.

There's no required info you need to give other than the comment, no account required. Submitting a comment takes 'time to write comment + 5 seconds' - it was very easy.

The comments have been open for 58 days, and they close in 20 days.

Side note: Which of our reps should we call about this, how do we find which rep applies to us, and how can we contact them and what to say? It'd be nice if someone made something like Resistbot for this.

(Though, after checking out the updated version of Resistbot, it seems like Resistbot will in fact work for this. https://resist.bot)

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Total number of comments also doesn't usually matter in these government comment periods (or at least not in the way you think it does). They are looking for new arguments to support a position one way or the other, not 10000 people commenting with the same take. If 10000 people say "this rule change is bad because my tax bill is higher," that's confirmation that it's a revenue driver, not an indication that it's a bad rule.

Laffer curve says that increasing tax rate doesn't necessarily increase total tax revenue. If the tax is too high, business becomes unprofitable and goes bust. A closed shop is bringing in 0 taxes. Even the Mafia understood that you can't squeeze the shops too hard or they'll just stop paying.

I was also surprised how few comments there are. It has been making the rounds in the SBIR community, (you'll see that if you read a few public comments) but I saw almost no one mentioning the software side of it. I submitted one on behalf of my company. Others should too, it's really very easy to do.

Welcome to the world where these “disruptive” changes gives executives ideas how to weaken the “adversary” even if it means it is going to damage the industry. Everyone is probably looking to how to re-adjust in this new environment. Big companies will certainly like since they have liquidity. At the end of the day, the tax pressure will be the same. This is just a liquidity event and it will kill small players with no capital connections.

I don’t see a campaign for this in Resistbot. Do you have a link to it?

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