[mlmpetert]

Obviously most people here are gonna be against an internet tax, but whats your reasoning for being anti-internet tax?

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013...ent-tax-email/

As the article notes, your property is taxed, your income is taxed, your investments are taxed; so should your emails/bit use be taxed?

If you are anti-internet tax, are you also anti-property or income or investment taxes as well? If not, why?

Im thinking we will see an internet tax of some sort within 15 years. A transparent tax would be too difficult to put into action and too cumbersome to collect on. My guess is that we will see a VAT/excise style of tax thats tiered and is enforced at the internet service provider level.

If history prevails, initially only the top users of the internet will be subject to the tax, although one can only assume it will be applied to smaller users as time goes on.

I suspect once the government has a financial interest in the internet, it will also become easier for them to justify the use of regulation to protect those interest. Kind of like federal highway laws and regulations applied to reimbursements from taxes, except in this case they could be called federal “information highway” regulations.

Finally i suspect, certain users (large corporations) will in time get tax credits that are linked to internet costs/taxes (think GE or big oil with the tax credits they are entitled to now).

I think the saying goes, if its moving tax it, if its still moving regulate it, once it stops moving subsidize it.

Your thoughts?