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Re: "Bit Tax" proposed by satan@hell.gov

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NODE 8f1de27eRe: "Bit Tax" proposed by satan@hell.gov
At 09:53 PM 5/3/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote:
>At 11:13 PM 5/3/96, Steve Reid wrote:
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>>The problem with a tax on data is that it would be *extremely* unfair.
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>Chill out, it's not a real proposal.

I just read the first few pages of the url, and skimmed a few more, and it's obviously a pile of socialist, politically-correct, statist liberal claptrap.  They're more interested in maintaining their little interdependant world than anything else.

Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com
Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com
NODE b8e0e7deRe: "Bit Tax" proposed by satan@hell.gov
> >>The problem with a tax on data is that it would be *extremely* unfair.
> >
> >Chill out, it's not a real proposal.
> 

It has no chance of flying because it would penalize people for downloading
advertising onto their machines. All those nifty marketing graphics.
Big business, little business, political campaign material; there's no
chance at all.