WI Governor Proposes State Sales Tax On Downloads (moved from ATSNN)

We have about three years before this is going to become an issue again, when it comes back aorund we need to actively fight this. I think the money I pay for my power bill to run my computer, my phone bill for connecting, and the money I pay my ISP is plenty. We can't let them have the internet to regulate and tax, as I quite strongly believe it may the last bastion of true communication and information exchange. Well, I guess if you can't control it, just tax it. And Apparently this idea is catching on in other state intiatives as well.




Once they realized the implications of citizens having an unlimited exchange of information, they immediately began both state and federal initiatives to regulate and monitor the internet. With the consolidation of the major media companies, the internet also became a haven for for a new concept in modern journalism, the Bloggers. They can't allow freedom of information any longer and maintain their integrity. For them, information has to be controlled, filtered through policies, clandestine and otherwise cotnroversial issues. They fear the complete free exchange of information.
When it became an international sensation, the internet grew beyond their means to regulate and control it, and honestly, I think the recent proposals of taxation and regulation of the net which has run proposal after proposal like wildifre through state and federal legislatures, is simply their "Plan B" to insert legislations which will be ultimately of a regulatory nature. This isn't just a revenue issue, for as age old history prooves, once they tax it, they will regulate it.
Take a look at these statements from www.jsonline.com......
"Gov. Jim Doyle wants you to pay Wisconsin's 5% sales tax whenever you pay to download a song, book, movie or piece of art."...
"Asked if consumers can be expected to note when they download and then pay the 5% sales taxes on those transactions, Morgan said: "What we believe is that a large number of these folks are unaware they have that obligation" to pay sales taxes on Internet and mail-order purchases."
""We're going to have to do a much better job of educating" taxpayers that they owe sales tax on Internet and mail-order purchases, Morgan said."

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This is crazy Whats next? Costing money to send emails and instant messages?!?!?!? I hope they don't get this in the state I live in.

I got a U2U from somebody here that said

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DO NOT REPLY TO THIS U2U.

I have no idea what source they are referring to, who it came from, or how to correct an ATSNN submission.

it means your source is no good unless you can back it up by a government corrupt news source, Like Fox, CNN or the like,
the governments of the world are going to have to learn to keep there hands of the peoples internet where the true voice of the people and news can be heard.

[edit on 16/3/2005 by Sauron]

Your first paragraph contains bias, also and has typo's. Click on submit news below the submission boxes you will find the guidlines.

Ars Technica is an awesome source dude, but there are those on this site who only believe the American corporate media.

Reply to them and have a whinge.

thanks,
drfunk

**post trashing**

I got rid of this because of the initial problems and since all the replies were about the submission rather than the topic. I have u2u'd the author about it already.