Should VoIP Be Taxed?
from the the-question-of-the-day dept
Well, lots of people have been talking about it, but Senator Lamar Alexander yesterday stated publicly that states should be able to tax VoIP system. The problem I have with this is that there seems to be no justification for this whatsoever, other than that states already tax telephone calls. In other words, this is a tax designed solely to boost state revenue - not because it creates some sort of expense that the state covers. It seems like the calls to tax VoIP are more because they can, and not because they should.
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Taxing VOIP
This probably will happen anyway, though.
What can I say? Vote Libertarian.
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Already *IS* taxed.
2) FCC taxes on the lines that bring you the internet
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No Subject Given
Just allowing something doesn't automatically necessitate taxing it as well.
The same argument goes for weed.
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like all taxes
Remember Colbert's characterisation of a tax policy? "get the most feathers from the goose with the minimum of hissing." You tax what and where you can.
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VoIP tax, progressive?
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So what do you want taxed instead?
What would you like to be taxed instead?
Look at it this way...I don't smoke...can't stand smoking at all, BUT I don't want to see smoking go away any time soon. Reason being that the smokers pay a large portion of the taxes that I don't have to pay through their purchases.
Now if only the smokers would actually take responsibility for picking up the habit and pay for their own medical expenses...but that's another story. Nobody can convince me that they didn't know that smoking would be bad for them. Ever been on the downwind side of a campfire?
Stepping off the soapbox now.
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Re: So what do you want taxed instead?
yeah & perhaps fat people will pick up THEIR share of the medical costs too ...
FAT chance
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