Every major creator platform (Substack, ConvertKit, Beehiiv, etc.) uses Stripe exclusively and blocks merchant-of-record alternatives. This creates a systematic trap:
Digital service sales have zero VAT/GST thresholds in most countries
One international subscriber = immediate tax liability
Platforms offer no country filtering and no compliant alternatives
Creators either: (1) unknowingly violate tax law, (2) spend $20k+/year on compliance, or (3) shut down
Payment processors and platforms profit from this gap by design
This affects 100k+ U.S. creators with $1B+ in collective tax liability.
The cost of exceptions is a typical server platform is so high that even very small chances of it happening is enough to throw a low latency application off its rails.
>Sometimes a law is just on its face and unjust in its application. For instance, I have been arrested on a charge of parading without a permit. Now, there is nothing wrong in having an ordinance which requires a permit for a parade. But such an ordinance becomes unjust when it is used to maintain segregation and to deny citizens the First-Amendment privilege of peaceful assembly and protest.
I hope you are able to see the distinction I am trying to point out. In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law, as would the rabid segregationist. That would lead to anarchy. One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
The article states that they needed to pay for insurance to do this, which they didn't do. It's a public park and if they want to turn it into a soup kitchen then they should also have to pay for it.
And this is why some conservatives get angry at liberals for laughing at them for their attachment to the principle of keeping the government out of their affairs.
The park belongs to the community, and these people are choosing to feed homeless people using private funds in this park. The government should have the sense to use discretion when their is a technical violation of the law and consider whether the spirit of the law is being broken. Politicians and public servants are supposed to be a proxy for the will of the people, not dictators who decide what is proper behavior for themselves.
If you're ever on the way back from Hawaii and happen to run into friends of yours that are in-costume Star Wars enthusiasts, it'd be wise not to use the native "Aloha" greeting.
"A YouTube star known for filming elaborate hoaxes was escorted off a Delta flight on Wednesday morning after he claimed that other passengers complained when they heard him speaking in Arabic.
Adam Saleh, a 23-year-old YouTube star from New York, posted multiple videos to Twitter and Periscope on Tuesday, showing himself being escorted from a plane by Delta flight attendants.
Saleh said in the videos that after passengers heard him speaking Arabic, they “felt uncomfortable” and called flight attendants. However, while it is clear that he was removed from the flight at London’s Heathrow airport, the circumstances leading up to the video – retweeted more than 644,000 times – are not known and cannot be verified.
Saleh has created videos in the past that involved staged scenes on airplanes and with actors playing authority figures."
Digital service sales have zero VAT/GST thresholds in most countries One international subscriber = immediate tax liability Platforms offer no country filtering and no compliant alternatives Creators either: (1) unknowingly violate tax law, (2) spend $20k+/year on compliance, or (3) shut down Payment processors and platforms profit from this gap by design
This affects 100k+ U.S. creators with $1B+ in collective tax liability.