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.”
Under Cordell’s framework, the bit tax would impose a levy on each digital bit of information flowing through global networks. That means people could have to pony up a fee for emails, file transfers, electronic check transactions and more.
Should the government tax your email? One California official thinks so | Fox News
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This might work for a little while, but eventually everything will become fully distributed anyway, which will pull control and power away from shitheads like this that believe they can control and tax anything they wish.
Reblogged this on Climate Ponderings.
The power to tax is the power to destroy. Nothing they would rather do than shut down web sites like this one, where people actually have the utter nerve to think for themselves. Can’t have that in a totalitarian state.
Once reality takes precedence over spending/QE and unlimited deficits (debt), the steps government will take to preserve its existence knows no bounds. There is nothing more dangerous or unpredictable than a wild animal fighting for it’s life. All it takes is for the dollar to lose the status of the world’s reserve currency and it’s all over.
Even if this stupid idea were to pass, the inventiveness of the American people would immediately go full bore to get around it. I can think of 4 or 5 right now, and I am no hacker. For example, how about posting your messages on, say, a personal blog? That’s not an e-mail. Hmmmm……
We pay Tax on our internet access and on all our electronic communications already, and on the energy we use to send e-mails and data, so what this genius is suggesting is a tax on tax.
Dreaming up taxes on anything handy just because you are spending too much is easy but stupid. Taxes should have a purpose. Our income tax as it is used today is unconstitutional as it has become a free-for-all spending of our money on anything they want to fund. It is an immoral use of our earned wealth.
You might as well tax breathing, at a fraction of a penny per breath, and then marvel at the money that will come in. These people are stupid. Email have nothing to do with postal mail. The mail service has to re-invent itself to become competitive or go out of business or raise rates. There is no reason people who do not use the mail service should be forced to fund it.
On a practical note, I would love to see how they would implement keeping track of everybody’s e-mail on so many different servers and programs. It would be a nightmare, not even considering the potential invasions of privacy that would be created.
“On a practical note, I would love to see how they would implement keeping track of everybody’s e-mail on so many different servers and programs. It would be a nightmare, not even considering the potential invasions of privacy that would be created.”
Why would you think they can’t or don’t do it already? The government does whatever they want; that is the new norm.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/03/16/nsas-new-data-center-and-ultra-fast-supercomputer-aim-to-crack-worlds-strongest-crypto/
Will they tax spam (and those emails containing viruses, too)? That alone could rake in trillions.
The NWO will just steal money from your bank account whenever they feel you’ve got too much money in it. Meanwhile ignoring the bank accounts of the super rich!
If they had thought of this last century, they could have kept stage coaches running.
Taxing emails? Man, what a Rube Goldberg way to steal.
Cyprus, man. They ain’t stupid. They’re like Willie Sutton. You go into the bank accounts and you just take your cut, 40% – or more if you feel like it – ’cause “that’s where the money is.”