NODE 8f1de27eRe: "Bit Tax" proposed by satan@hell.gov
jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>Sun, 5 May 1996 07:15:49 +0800
At 09:53 PM 5/3/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote:
>At 11:13 PM 5/3/96, Steve Reid wrote:
>
>>The problem with a tax on data is that it would be *extremely* unfair.
>
>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
Elizabeth Schwartz <betsys@cs.umb.edu>Fri, 10 May 1996 04:14:38 +0800
> >>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.