3 posts tagged “taxes”

Source: HardOCP (I gotta remember to source these damn things.)

Link: http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2403/070920taxban/

So here's the thing. You know how there aren't any taxes on Internet stuff? Unless it's an in-state delivery, of course. BustedTees is in Maryland so I get a little extra tacked on (but it's very much worth it.) Getting back to my point, the Internet is virtually tax free. This is because the government said 'net taxes are a no-no - at least, temporarily. But that tax ban ends at the beginning of November, so various Congressfolk are talking about what to do afterwards. There are three Senators who've publicly voiced the opinion that the tax ban should be permanent.

That's great, right? I don't want taxes on my Internet. But the thing is, those three Senators are all Republicans. So I'm asking myself the obvious question: "What are these Republicans getting out of a ban on Internet taxes?"

Sure, Republicans typically tend to campaign on tax cuts. But that's because those tax cuts benefit large corporations and the ludicrously wealthy far more than the rest of us. So that leads me to my next question: "How much money are the big Internet players - Comcast, Verizon, and such - giving to these Republicans? While I don't like the idea of taxes, I despise the notion that every time my dad's Comcast bill got jacked up, Trent Lott cackled with malevolent glee as he gazed with unbridled lust at his offshore accounts.

(We're with Verizon now, which became cheaper after the last price-gouge, and so far seems to be a superior Internet and Mindmelt-o-vision provider.)

The Internet should be tax-free because it's almost as important as water, not because big corporations use the money I pay them to bribe politicians.

Ah well... it could be worse. We could be in China. Taxes are at worst a necessary nuisance, while internet censorship is truly evil.

Source: HardOCP (I gotta remember to source these damn things.)

Link: http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2403/070920taxban/

So here's the thing. You know how there aren't any taxes on Internet stuff? Unless it's an in-state delivery, of course. BustedTees is in Maryland so I get a little extra tacked on (but it's very much worth it.) Getting back to my point, the Internet is virtually tax free. This is because the government said 'net taxes are a no-no - at least, temporarily. But that tax ban ends at the beginning of November, so various Congressfolk are talking about what to do afterwards. There are three Senators who've publicly voiced the opinion that the tax ban should be permanent.

That's great, right? I don't want taxes on my Internet. But the thing is, those three Senators are all Republicans. So I'm asking myself the obvious question: "What are these Republicans getting out of a ban on Internet taxes?"

Sure, Republicans typically tend to campaign on tax cuts. But that's because those tax cuts benefit large corporations and the ludicrously wealthy far more than the rest of us. So that leads me to my next question: "How much money are the big Internet players - Comcast, Verizon, and such - giving to these Republicans? While I don't like the idea of taxes, I despise the notion that every time my dad's Comcast bill got jacked up, Trent Lott cackled with malevolent glee as he gazed with unbridled lust at his offshore accounts.

(We're with Verizon now, which became cheaper after the last price-gouge, and so far seems to be a superior Internet and Mindmelt-o-vision provider.)

The Internet should be tax-free because it's almost as important as water, not because big corporations use the money I pay them to bribe politicians.

Ah well... it could be worse. We could be in China. Taxes are at worst a necessary nuisance, while internet censorship is truly evil.

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