TIL that in 2003, a US court ruled that the X-Men are not human
Toy Biz v. United States was a 2003 decision in the United States Court of International Trade that determined that for purposes of tariffs, Toy Biz's action figures were toys, not dolls, because they represented "nonhuman creatures".[1] This decision effectively halved the tariff rate, from 12 percent tax to 6.8 percent.[2]
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I believe they called it the Mutant Affairs Control Act
Nah, this is setting the precedent for the MACT to come
It's always taxes, just FYI. Any legal battle over what one product is or isn't, is always about taxes.
Is pizza a vegetable?
That wasn't a court case. Just a an act of Congress.
A similar thing happened in the UK , the tax man got narky with a food manufacturer over a cake/biscuit (cookie for our American friends) distinction. Cakes and biscuits are taxed differently.
This little blog-post thing explains it better than I could.
https://www.astonshaw.co.uk/jaffa-cake-tax/
The older I get, the more I understand what Franz Kafka had been saying. I have no love for the Republican Party or any other "party of small government", but they have a point about bloating bureaucracy.
Was this Peter Dinklage working there at the time or something?
Loved him in that role.
It was a pretty perfect casting choice.
Which movie is being referenced?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men:_Days_of_Future_Past
Sorry, I meant the one with Peter Dinklage lol
Oh, it's called X-Men: days of future past.
Great movie
Anti-mutant by day, anti-bigger by night.
—Toy Biz v. United States
—Bolivar Trask and Magneto
TIL a doll is not a toy in the eyes of the law.
Systemic, I tell you
They human then. It's nice to have a government that makes things so easy to understand.
Fabian Cortez hates this one trick, 9/10 Jamie Madroxes agree
So true!