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- cmiller1, on 06/09/2008, -5/+82Just as important as net neutrality IMO. I don't see why more diggers aren't backing this sort of legislation. I don't want the government or businesses messing with my free and open web.
- wrttnwrd, on 06/09/2008, -5/+54Internet-related businesses are one of the few economic sectors moving UP right now. Taxing it would be so stupid that Atlas Shrugged springs to mind...
- evolvor, on 06/09/2008, -2/+46Seriously, we pay for it as it is. I spend $100+ between my phone and home cable modems to have access, and don't think I need to pay any more than that.
- Needles13, on 06/10/2008, -2/+40Free internet porn is what made the internet amazing. Please don't ruin this for me.
- chelseadean, on 06/09/2008, -4/+30Something worth fighting for!
- pinoyskull, on 06/09/2008, -2/+21I definitely support this cause
- Lowry, on 06/10/2008, -6/+24How are we going to pay for McCain's continuation of the war or Barack's free healthcare?
Taxes are going to go up. - inactive, on 06/10/2008, -2/+17Sorry, Digg, you can't have it both ways. You can't rabidly support the most liberal senator in Congress for president, AND want something to go untaxed. Nice try, though.
- locojones, on 06/10/2008, -1/+15Wow maybe you should log off the internet and bone up on your civics. The President can't tax anything. In fact, the President's powers are quite limited. If you really care about the taxation issue, you should direct your attention to electing members of Congress who share your view, and who are empowered with the legislative authority to do so.
- judist63, on 06/09/2008, -2/+15Me too evolvor! I spend 130.00 a month for cable tv and broadband cable internet access. I will be heck if I have to pay more per usage!! They can stick it in their collective ears!
- wtbuser, on 06/10/2008, -2/+15Why can't liberals and progressives see the benefit of ending taxes any where else?
- dilemmalyn, on 06/10/2008, -2/+14There's already been a law. The next president can't tax us. Maybe the one after..
Wikipedia
The 1998 Internet Tax Freedom Act was authored by Representative Chris Cox, R-CA and Senator Ron Wyden, D-OR and signed into law on October 21, 1998 by President Bill Clinton in an effort to promote and preserve the commercial potential of the Internet. This law bars federal, state, and local governments from taxing Internet access and from imposing discriminatory Internet-only taxes such as bit taxes, bandwidth taxes, and e-mail taxes. The law also bars multiple taxes on electronic commerce.
The bill has been extended three times by the United States Congress since its original enactment and was last renewed on October 30, 2007 for 7 years.[3] - RAEP, on 06/10/2008, -2/+14It's the president who vetoes laws.
- Brad324, on 06/10/2008, -1/+13make me a sandwich.
That is all,
signed, Brad. - cmiller1, on 06/10/2008, -0/+11Stop unnecessary defense spending? Legalize and tax drugs? Cut ridiculous amounts of pork barrel spending? Invest money into researching alternative energy sources? Budgeting is easy to figure out, getting someone in office who is not a total moron isn't.
- george2gfm, on 06/10/2008, -11/+21Democrats raise taxes, just in case someone people were out of the loop...
- bicycleman, on 06/10/2008, -10/+20Government is too big and corrupt. We need a revolutionary war again. Anyone wanna lead? I just want to man the canons.
- Glendz, on 06/09/2008, -12/+22Something probably worth fighting for. Although I can see it a bit beneficial if there are brackets on classifications of internet usage and if this gets tax, then tax should decrease some place else. And tax exemptions should also be in place. But when that happens, only business internet usage might be taxed and the Internet has been so promising for the small business owners to compete with the big guns. Making internet usage taxable to users can be detrimental to small business growth.
- logandurand, on 06/10/2008, -0/+9It's sad that this is even an issue. The internet, despite its size, is still nothing but a really big LAN owned by various entities. Taxing internet service providers would be like taxing me to use my own WiFi network.
- FallOutBoyTonto, on 06/10/2008, -1/+10"at this critical stage of early development" - made me LOL
Internet has been around for a while now and people are now finally getting smart enough to actually use it. - Ryan166, on 06/10/2008, -1/+10Why are diggers happy to pay high income taxes, but are so opposed to internet taxation? The end result is we lose money, it doesn't matter how we got there.
- inactive, on 06/10/2008, -7/+15Alot of you seem to have forgotten that the Dems are the Tax happy Party. So if a Dem President decides to tax the internet dont be shocked.....of course you will deny its a tax but alas its a TAX!
- danno1982, on 06/10/2008, -0/+8Ha, that's a great comment.
- headband, on 06/10/2008, -2/+10just go vote for Ron Paul. No president is going to listen to a blog post. They already have their own views and policies You need to vote for somebody who is going to make it happen.
- MrTito, on 06/10/2008, -1/+9Amen. Pirating is always gonna be a fuzzy area... But otherwise a lot of the content we consume (Blogs, YouTube, Flickr, etc.) are created by other people who aren't making much, if any, money off of it. If I'm gonna pay more, I'd rather pay the content creators, not the delivery guy.
- wardawg31, on 06/10/2008, -1/+8Spending cuts are the only solution. When my budget is short at home, I don't go to my neighbor and ask her for money to help me pay for gasoline. I cut my spending. I cancel my cable, I eat spam instead of steak, and I drive less.
Less spending means less taxes needed for budget and more money for paying debt.
http://www.fairtax.org - inactive, on 06/10/2008, -3/+10Why write a letter to the President? It's Congress that passes laws. You should write to your Senator and Representative first.
- inactive, on 06/10/2008, -2/+9It's a glass completely empty, glass half-empty sort of deal.
- saturnx8, on 06/10/2008, -2/+9that aint gonna happen if its obama, he's gonna tax EVERYTHING and EVERYONE. be prepared to fork over 3/4 of your pay an dat least 6-10%tax on everything/service provided.
- picsectionpleez, on 06/10/2008, -0/+7uh, speak for your self- I for one am NOT "happy" to pay high taxes.
- FairDinkumMate, on 06/10/2008, -0/+6Your tariff idea is worse than the tax!
Why do most companies establish an internet presence? - marketing, sales & service
Putting a tariff on US provided services would increase the cost of business for these companies. They would then either move their servers out of the US(costing US jobs) or lose market share to international competitors that didn't have to pay the tariff.
People in the US need to realise that having a high amount of the world's net traffic is a positive thing because it creates jobs & business. With no need for the physical infrastructure to be located in any particular country, this is a very tentative lead & the smallest move to increase costs could redirect US internet traffic(along with its money & jobs) to anywhere else in the world very easily. - carpespasm, on 06/10/2008, -2/+8Tax the Internet and kill the golden goose on which the US economy will be built in the 21st century if we allow it to be. Especially if the entertainment and cell phone companies get their ***** together.
- PapaZit, on 06/10/2008, -1/+7Taxes are going to go up regardless. We are trillion of dollars in debt, with that number increasing every year. Cutting spending isn't going to get us out of the trouble we're in.
- afruff23, on 06/10/2008, -0/+5Don't you get it? It's to get more taxes then ever before.
Here's an analogy. You have a bacterial culture of only a few cells. You want to extract as much of a certain bacterial protein as possible. Do you collect the protein (which involves killing the cells) at the very beginning, the middle, or near the end of their life cycle to get the most protein? Answer: middle.
This is just like that. - Darksoul, on 06/10/2008, -0/+5I totally agree its bad enough I live in a state where the sales tax is huge we don't need that ***** on the internet the internet is about the free exchange of ideas and goods. Taxing it is going to limit its growth.
- inactive, on 06/10/2008, -0/+5This comment is just ignorant.
- eyepatch100, on 06/10/2008, -2/+7Soon as the Gov't smells a new cash cow, they can't wait to cripple and devour it. And once it's dead, it's under control.
- inactive, on 06/10/2008, -1/+6It's the president's father who fathers the president.
- dafragsta, on 06/10/2008, -1/+6Better yet, make it so that politicians can't meet secretly in the open with other world politicians and businessmen and not show any record of what they discussed. No Bilderbergs in the highest seat.
- da_bradler, on 06/10/2008, -0/+4You are still paying shipping when you buy from a brick and motor store. Unless you feel like your driving time and gas are worthless.
- shauncorleone, on 06/10/2008, -0/+4"Not taxing their internet purchases unfairly burdens the poor". If I buy something from Amazon, based in Seattle, why should the state of Florida get to tax them (a tax that would be passed along to me)? What does the state of Florida provide for Amazon? They are already taxed in the state(s) they operate in. Government does not get to tax businesses simply for the sake of operating Government. This is all besides the fact that the poor people you speak of that ARE working won't see any of my tax dollars anyway.
If you're concerned about them being able to afford such necessities and you live in a state where necessities are taxed (in FL, clothes are taxed), perhaps you should contact your state government representatives. - lordmetroid, on 06/10/2008, -0/+4In order to tax, total surveillance is needed. Wohoo!
- captZEEbo, on 06/10/2008, -0/+4wardawg is right (except for fairtax). The ONLY way to eliminate debt is to cut spending. It doesn't matter how big taxes are, if you spend more than you make, you will go broke (personal finance 101). Furthermore raising taxes rarely leads to a budget surplus in the USA, it just leads to more unsustainable cash cows that are now deemed necessary (social security, welfare, constant war since wwII, etc, etc, etc).
- Xizer, on 06/10/2008, -5/+9Hmm yes, let's see how McCain finances our 100-year Afghanistan, Iraq, and soon to be Iran wars without raising taxes.
- Sheri123, on 06/10/2008, -1/+5If my party voted for an Internet tax I would switch to the other party or become an Independent. Besides that the Internet is worldwide and would be unenforceable outside of this country thereby putting Americans at a disadvantage on the Internet Information Highway.
- randumbusername, on 06/10/2008, -0/+4well they can directly see an internet taxes. the taxes they want to pass on corporations which ultimately are paid by consumers aren't as noticeable. democrats think they are punishing the companies when they are really punishing people. if the companies can't pass the taxes along the company will go out of business, which means jobs loss and tax revenue loss. if the company is smart enough it will relocate overseas.
- yuanzhoulu, on 06/10/2008, -0/+3if internet usage gets taxed i'm leaving this country.
- Skooma714, on 06/10/2008, -0/+3So you admit the government wastes the money it takes yet you insist people continue to pay their "fair share"?
If you hired someone do a job but he did a terrible job, was surly and had a major attitude problem yet demands nearly triple the rate agreed upon would you pay him? - Skurj, on 06/10/2008, -0/+3that would have been much more effective without the cheesy video.
- supertaliman, on 06/10/2008, -0/+3Something worth Dying for!!!
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