Government trolling sites like kickstarter

[Dark_blade64]

Alright new upcoming rules is that the government will take 25% fee for projects funded in places like kickstarter while kickstarter takes like 10% fee which that means project will only receive a 65% of funding if the project is funded. Conclusion this is a bad joke!! Cmon what the hell? Those dirty greedy capitalist XD!!! They had of course came up with a policy to capitalize with all the money that goes around in kickstarter. Those greedy tricky parasites! I see what they did there.

[solidbatman]

Do you have a source? I am looking but cant find anything about the gov't taking a 25% cut. 

[Dark_blade64]

Do you have a source? I am looking but cant find anything about the gov't taking a 25% cut. 

The thing is they will add taxes for kickstarter users I think it will depend from which country the kickstarter is from. I couldn't find the news but it is from a computer site although if this is true it should become obvious when people start complaining and talk about it soon.

[Dergonu]

Well there you go sekai project. Feel like doing something outside kickstarter for once now?

 

In all seriousness though, this sounds like it could cause some rage from developers. Interested in a source as well, if you can find it.

[CeruleanGamer]

Give money to the people, not the government. The government only knows how to stick their hand and ask "where's my share?". They have no fucking clue how to allocate tax money. 

Edited December 18, 2015 by CeruleanGamer

[solidbatman]

Well there you go sekai project. Feel like doing something outside kickstarter for once now?

 

In all seriousness though, this sounds like it could cause some rage from developers. Interested in a source as well, if you can find it.

Sekai has been working on their own crowdfunding platform and store front for a while now. 

Still, until this gets a source, I'm not buying a 25% cut. I can easily see a 5-8% cut. But 25% is freaking high. 

[Velociraptor]

>Alright new upcoming rules is that the government will take 25% fee for projects funded in places like kickstarter

>Those dirty greedy capitalist XD!!!

u wot, m8?

[kingdomcome]

No source, and it sounds way too high of a %.

If it is true, It would be easy to see why someone would set the project out of the USA. Similar situation is how people set up their business in Hong Kong so they don't have to pay the high tax rate to the Aussie government.

[Dark_blade64]

No source, and it sounds way too high of a %.

If it is true, It would be easy to see why someone would set the project out of the USA. Similar situation is how people set up their business in Hong Kong so they don't have to pay the high tax rate to the Aussie government.

I couldn't find the source, I just know is a computer site. I mean I hope is fake it sounds stupid but I wouldn't be surprised if it is true...

[firecat]

i found nothing from their websites and people that i talked too, all i found was this: https://www.opencongress.org/bill/s2413-114/show

for people who do not want to read the great wall of text

https://www.opencongress.org/bill/s2413-114/show

 

maybe thats where the kickstarter talk is about? if you read it, you can see that it includes the whole internet (kickstarter as well). we all know that kickstarter has done questionable things like: http://kotaku.com/12-successful-kickstarters-that-never-delivered-1687019268

so ya i can see why congress wanted a "UNFAIR OR DECEPTIVE ACTS" to end

Edited December 18, 2015 by firecat

[solidbatman]

Keep in mind, its not kickstarter that makes those projects fail. Its bad management and unrealistic goals from creators. It'd be like if you blamed the piece of paper you wrote on for getting a math problem wrong. The paper is just the platform. 

[Darklord Rooke]

It's fake.

[monkeysrumble]

Smells bullshitty. Needs source.

[Decay]

Just as a general rule of thumb, you won't ever have a scoop of this magnitude for your entire life. If someone tells you something that feels like a big deal, but there aren't any news sites reporting on it, it's bogus.

[Eclipsed]

>>OP Makes thread announcing government 25% fee kickstarter, gets requests for source

>>OP replies, "I couldn't find the news but it is from a computer site"

???

Legit.

 

[Dergonu]

>>OP Makes thread announcing government 25% fee kickstarter, gets requests for source

>>OP replies, "I couldn't find the news but it is from a computer site"

???

Legit.

 

I just wanted to say thank you for making me spill coffee on my shirt from laughing. 

Thank you. 

Thank you.

[Cake]

Well Kickstarter do take 5% which then turns into a profit that helps pay for the cost of running the website.  Not to mention that they are very well known, so of course they would stick out like a sore thumb.