Taxing the internet


Runaway government power
I don't have much to say about the 'Net tax except one thing.

When did American cities and states start assuming that they could tax everything?

It's really simple economics. If government wants more of something available, then the taxes and fees have to go down.

The really sad part is that if internet access is taxed, the folks who will be hardest hit will be on the lower ends of the income scale.

And then there is a certain lady Democrat who claims that only government can invest. It doesn't work like that.

In fact, thanks to law and government regulation, fiber optic networks in the United States came mostly to a dead stop. Until a few years ago, to use a network, the company that owns it must lease the "unused capacity" to it's competition at below cost, even if it's competition only exists on paper. So company A would lose it's customers to company B because B could undersell A, even though company A and B used the exact same physical network.

Government doesn't order WalMart to open more stores or for more gas stations to be built. Yet somehow, there are more where they are needed.

The free market takes care of it's own. Government oversight just gums up the works.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Mon - October 15, 2007 at 09:21 AM  Tag


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