Taxing your E-Mail

Wall Street Journal ^ | Oct 29, 2003 | editorial

[The Raven]

One of the more enduring Internet hoaxes is the chain letter claiming that the government has an e-mail tax in the works. Well, if Congress doesn't extend the Internet tax moratorium before it expires at the end of this week, the e-mail tax could soon cease to be an urban legend.

[kitkat]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[The Raven]

Assume they tax internet access, email, etc and the masses use the previously free internet less and less (you could say - they'll be taxing free speech).

I guess we'll just have to come up with something else. Maybe Free-Republic - Cell Phone version? Oh wait - they tax that, too. And my cable. and my satellite. and my telephone.

So, better yet...let's vote out the politicians and keep what we have.

[lonestar]

Everytime they give themselves a pay raise they give us another tax?

[Arkie2]

Would they tax the spammers? Somehow I doubt it. They would probably get a tax loophole written in. Eventually the entire internet would consist of nothing but spammers and porn sites. A second vast wasteland.

[Surrounded_too]

This thing has to be stopped once and for all.
The Liberals ought to be screaming about information collection required to impose taxes violating privacy.
Charities with websites will get less traffic. There is no way to estimate how much past progress and future progress will be ruined by greedy politicians and tax collectors.
Annoy your Senators TODAY by phone, by email. Tell your Liberal co-workers. Those just entering the computer world
will be discouraged by added taxes.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

I'll bet we didn't expect Lamar Alexander (R) to support a tax on the Internet when we voted for him to replace Fred Thompson here in Tennessee. Would somebody tell me which of the major parties is for lowering taxes? I can't tell.

[yoe]

"With no law to stop them, state and local officials can start taxing everything from spam filters to instant messages to Google searches. E-mail taxes alone would be a gold mine for free-spending politicians across the country. At a Senate hearing on spam in May, Minnesota Democrat Mark Dayton suggested "looking at some very, very small charge for every e-mail sent." "

Let your Congressmen/women and Senators and every politician running for office, that we won't sit still on this idea for one day! This sort of tyranny will not be tolerated. NO VOTES FOR THOSE WHO WOULD TAX THE INTERNET FOR E-MAIL OR OTHER FREE AREAS - THIS IS NOT THE GOVERNMENTS, FEDERAL OR OTHERWISE - CASH COW!!!!

[kitkat]

Magazines and all printed literature are TAX FREE. And those items cross state lines, so that should shoot down the excuse for internet tax.

Well...it SHOULD. But apparently our representatives in Congress would rather take away our free speech.

[kitkat]

FREE-SPEECH BUMP

[Snuffington]

The Internet is too broadly imbedded into average American life now. If the politicos think there won't be a major reaction if they start taxing this stuff, they're in for a rude surprise.

[Eala]

Minnesota Democrat Mark Dayton suggested "looking at some very, very small charge for every e-mail sent."

"Very, very small charges" do not remain so for very long. Just look at the income tax. This effort to end the moratorium needs to end now.

[lorrainer]

Of course, the campaign email spam of Congress would be exempt from taxes. </sarcasm>

[SGCOS]

Since I can't afford an Internet Tax, where do I sign up to receive Internet Welfare?

In addition I'll be needing to receive Surfing Security.

[Gopher Broke]

Tennessee residents, click on the link below to send a message to Senator Lamar Alexander and ask him to stop acting like a Democrat and RELEASE the hold he has on the Internet Tax Moritorium Bill.

http://alexander.senate.gov/contact/

[Gopher Broke]

If you live in Ohio, click here to email Voinovich.

If you live in Washington, click hereto email Cantwell

[foreverfree]

bump

[G.Mason]

"If the politicos think there won't be a major reaction if they start taxing this stuff, they're in for a rude surprise."

You've got that exactly right!