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This will lead the way so they can start taxing BMW and Mercedes to revive buggy whip manufacturing. Truly visionary.
Haha, very much along the lines of what I was thinking. Isn't the idea behind capitalism that good businesses succeed, while bad businesses fail? What happens when all of the bad businesses are propped up by government subsidies? ^sigh^ whatever happened to letting the market decide...
This will lead the way so they can start taxing BMW and Mercedes to revive buggy whip manufacturing. Truly visionary.
What you're saying is analogous to saying our govt't taxing of telephone calls will lead to us reverting back sending smoke signals from Manhattan to DC, or using carrier pigeons.
This will lead the way so they can start taxing BMW and Mercedes to revive buggy whip manufacturing. Truly visionary.
Did you read the article? What you're saying is analogous to saying our govt't taxing of telephone calls will lead to us reverting back sending smoke signals from Manhattan to DC, or using carrier pigeons.
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Did you read the article? What you're saying is analogous to saying our govt't taxing of telephone calls will lead to us reverting back sending smoke signals from Manhattan to DC, or using carrier pigeons.
I believe that the taxes on phone calls are to pay for the Spanish-American War and not to subsidize the smoke signal industry. If the taxes on phone calls were put into place and the revenues given to the smoke signal industry, then YES I emphatically say that the objective is to lead us back to smoke signals.
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Haha, very much along the lines of what I was thinking. Isn't the idea behind capitalism that good businesses succeed, while bad businesses fail? What happens when all of the bad businesses are propped up by government subsidies? ^sigh^ whatever happened to letting the market decide...
The tax is to be levied irrespective of the (major) search engine used.
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Haha, very much along the lines of what I was thinking. Isn't the idea behind capitalism that good businesses succeed, while bad businesses fail? What happens when all of the bad businesses are propped up by government subsidies? ^sigh^ whatever happened to letting the market decide...
The tax is to be levied irrespective of the (major) search engine used.
The ISP also give 1% of their income to those companies.
So yes I think taxing the search engines is the logical next step.
Aren't they just simply proposing to tax online advertising revenue? What's the big deal?
Aren't they just simply proposing to tax online advertising revenue? What's the big deal?
The big deal is that they're planning on using the money generated to support creative industries that are harmed by digital innovation . ie, the music industry.
If so, shouldn't the search engines be taxed on their advertising revenues?