I don’t really care if they have my information.
What I am arguing for is each time my information transfers from my machine to another, that is a taxable event. Then from another machine to the next, that is a taxable event. Whoever owns the machine that receives my information must pay my income tax. If enough machines receive my information, I may end up paying no income tax at all. The feds might even get a surplus in tax payments.
I get to know who has my information, because they have to report the taxable event. If you don’t want to pay tax - don’t collect my information.
That is a very good idea, if it could be limited to that. But I see great danger in that resulting in an “electronic data transfer tax”, on far more things.
Imagine if the government got a penny for every Google search, or course Google being by subscription only, and a nickel a search. Or it cost a penny to look at FR, and a penny to look at every link from FR.
A penny of tax every time we used a credit card or made an electronic bank transfer. Already the UN has proposed an international financial transfer tax, to fund the UN.
As ridiculous sounding as I could make these, I’m sure that some greedy government employee could make them much worse.