The Internet Tax Grab

The Wall Street Journal ^ | Tuesday, October 21, 2003

[DannyTN]

"With regards to a technology lag (if I understood your point) "

I was thinking more in terms of helping new technologies and speeding replacement of old technologies, than propping old technologies up. I think the tax structure and government can help that in various ways.

But at the same time, I recognize there are huge (hugh) dangers of direct government involvement in promoting some things.

[DannyTN]

"With regards to a technology lag (if I understood your point) "

I was thinking more in terms of helping new technologies and speeding replacement of old technologies, than propping old technologies up. I think the tax structure and government can help that in various ways.

But at the same time, I recognize there are huge (hugh) dangers of direct government involvement in promoting some things.

However, I would be more speculative than you could imagine

Not only would you be speculative, you'd be skeptical too.

[CSM]

"Not only would you be speculative, you'd be skeptical too."

Got me!

[gitmo]

Some of the Congressional testimony confirmed that if local governments were allowed to tax the internet, they could tax anything going through servers in their city / county / state. If you send an email to someone in your own city, it might go through several states and even multiple countries. Each one could legally pile a tax onto your email. If they tax the recipient, then you would be paying hundreds of taxing authorities to learn how to enlarge the size of your sex organs.