Monday, March 11, 2013

Berkeley Democrat Proposes Taxing Email To Keep Post Office Afloat…

Weasel Zippers
Add email to the never ending list of things Democrats want to tax.
"Gordon Wozniak suggested that using email, which is partially responsible for killing off demand for letter-carrying services, could save “vital functions” of the post office, the news site Berkleyside reported.
"“There should be … a very tiny tax on email,” he told the City Council. “There should be something like a bit tax. I mean, a bit tax could be a cent per gigabit and they would still make, probably, billions of dollar a year.”
And we all know from experience how that "tiny tax" will metastasize over time, don't we?
"The problem is, such a levy wouldn’t be legal unless the Internet Tax Freedom Act is allowed to expire in 2014."
 
You may appreciate the comments accompanying the above article. Every day, we become less and less free.
 
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