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Should the government tax your email? One California official thinks so
fox news ^
| march 27, 2023
| Barnini Chakraborty
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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; email; tax; taxes
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To: lowbridge
Yes, Yes, but only in California. Then we simply bombard the libtards with bogus email—bankrupt em.
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posted on
03/27/2013 11:03:54 AM PDT
by
SgtHooper
(The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
To: lowbridge
And if I try to evade the tax buy buying or renting DVDs instead of streaming them will I be arrested?
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posted on
03/27/2013 11:04:17 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Choose one: the yellow and black flag of the Tea Party or the white flag of the Republican Party.)
To: lowbridge
Your money is his money. He doesn't want you to forget that fact, so he dreams up the most outrageous and infuriating ruse he can under which under which to take it. It's totally fine with him if that ticks you off, because the absolute worst thing that could happen from his point of view would be for you to forget who's boss, who holds the leash, and who has it around his neck.
To: SeminoleCounty
How dip-feces stupid can they get in Bezerkley? Obviously there isn't any limit.
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posted on
03/27/2013 11:44:43 AM PDT
by
from occupied ga
(Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
To: lowbridge
Very tiny now, higher later. They always do it that way.
There is a big expense involved in setting up the payment system. And the expense is covered by the service providers.
We need politicians to shut their traps, not propose dumb things.
To: lowbridge
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posted on
03/27/2013 2:06:54 PM PDT
by
Sarajevo
(Don't think for a minute that this excuse for a President has America's best interest in mind.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
They can punish us, but we can't punish them. It's the law.
That's often the case, E. Pluribus Unum, though that's part of the reason I never leave the house without a gun.
To: rarestia
What about spoofed addresses?
I’m not sure...maybe it’s still possible to trace the data packets.
To: Pontiac
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posted on
03/28/2013 6:37:05 AM PDT
by
rarestia
(It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
To: clamper1797
“Arizona would tell Kalifornistan to go pound sand”
Not for much longer. The idiots here rule more and more.
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posted on
03/28/2013 6:39:49 AM PDT
by
Luke21
To: Luke21
We have to make sure that imbecile RINOs like McLame get beaten in the primaries
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posted on
03/28/2013 12:52:56 PM PDT
by
clamper1797
(De-throne King Obozo)
To: clamper1797; All
the medium is the message
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posted on
03/28/2013 12:54:12 PM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: lowbridge
Just spam the hell out of all California democrats and watch the money roll in. /Idiots
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posted on
03/28/2013 1:05:51 PM PDT
by
eyedigress
((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?)
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