Posted on 03/27/2013 9:33:32 AM PDT by lowbridge
A California official is bringing new life to the argument that the Internet --including emails -- is an untapped revenue resource that should be taxed to help local economies.
Berkeley City Councilman Gordon Wozniak brought up taxing emails during a recent council meeting. He suggested the money collected, which would be part of a wider-reaching Internet tax, could be used in Berkeley's case to save the local post office.
"There should be something like a bit tax," he said during the March 5 meeting. "I mean, a bit tax could be a cent per gigabit and they would make, probably, billions of dollars a year."
Plus,he said, there should be a "very tiny tax on email."
This idea goes beyond already-controversial proposals to tax e-commerce -- like buying used books on Amazon. This would be a tax on data.
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I think at this point, if I saw that new Movie, Olympus Down, I’d be rooting for the North Koreans....
does this include text messaging? young people would not allow a tax
There should be a tax every time they write “OMG” or “LOL”..That would pay off the national debt and leave a surplus in a day.
[[”I see you have some money there. Give it to me.”]]
That’s precisely what it has coem down to- and why? Because peopel KEEP GIVING IT to them without standign up agaisnt such blatant highway robbery (Yes, I do too- I’m no different) Things WILL NOT CHANGE i nthis country UNLESS someoen rises up- organizes a resistance effort, and gets enough peopel behind hte cause to make it a pwoerful enough force to make a difference- waitign on lawsuits by lawyers is no logner an option- thel eft has declared war on the citizens of htis coutnry- and they are NO LONGER even sly about it- hell- bloomberg just came out and declared the govenrment ‘has the right to violate our rights’ and ghe was serious too- he truly thinks he has the right to do whatever the hell he wants because he has the poice and military behind him if needed- he feels he can ‘legally’ violate any right he wishes via edict and ‘emergency action’ because he ‘has the law behind him on his side’
If this idiotic idea goes through, the government would be ale to monitor all email traffic.
Next they will charge Arizona for 'used air'.
I pay service providers and they in turn pay taxes on their profits. Unless, of course, they are one of Obama’s cronies.
I lived in CA for years until last year. Whenever I traveled to other States, I was amazed at not having to dodge potholes on the highway.
That’s what the CA taxpayers did with prop 13, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Associaton. Of course now the Dems have the majority vote needed to budget and tax as they wish, and they are already salvaing at changing prop 13 for businesses.
I already pay local and state sales tax on my phone bill. That is, in a way, paying local taxes on my telecommunications service, including internet access and email.
Taxing e-mail to save the pony express is no different than passing a tax on combustion to save the buggy whip industry.
How dip-feces stupid can they get in Bezerkley?
Arizona would tell Kalifornistan to go pound sand
I think the RIAA would like to charge you even if you did own it.
I see you have some money there. Give it to me.
To the degree we reward predators, we encourage them to enlarge both the scope and severity of their predations; to the degree we punish predators, we discourage them.
How hard was that to figure out?
I think the RIAA would like to charge you even if you did own it.
The bar refused to pay and no longer has ANY live music.
“Gigabit”. One-eighth of a gigabyte.
It's the law.
What about all of those emails that your Trojan infected computer sends out with out your knowledge.
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