ABSTRACT
Cyberspatial properties, by unsettling the moral orders, make visible the contours and the limits of liberal and critical theories of property, themselves bound up with its moral orderings. Internet-based banking products, electronic commerce transactions, and internet-based offshore financial services are new objects of proprietary and regulatory concern. Debates over whether and how to tax electronic commerce – internet-based sales of goods and services – have taken similar turns. Electronic commerce poses the challenge of how to collect tax on sales conducted on-line. Electronic commerce has in some debates taken on the character of a vampire, sucking the life-blood of the sovereign state. “A public charter conveys numerous economic benefits,” Proxmire stated, “and, in return, it is legitimate for public policy and regulatory practice to require some public purpose”. Prior to the Anthony government, Taiwan had maintained an embassy on the island, and the old United States military base on Vieux-Fort had languished as a little-used port.
