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| Yes | 3% | 26 votes | Total: 764 votes | |
| No | 97% | 738 votes |
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It is inevitable as death, eventually there will be a system for taxing goods sold on the Internet. In 1992 the Supreme court ruled that because of the complexities involve...read more
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Should you be taxed for using the Internet? I believe taxing the internet for business use, is a potential revenue source for local, state or federal government. There are ma...read more
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by Alina G
Since the early 90s, the beginning of the dot com era, the government allowed all internet commerce to be tax free. You could do any transaction online, wholesale or retail, and...read more
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by Lacey Anslow
The government should tax everything we use in this wonderful country. Including the air. They should monitor our every breath to make sure they don't get screwed over in the ...read more
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Should use of the Internet be taxed? Definitely yes. By imposing a small tax on the use of the Internet, our now ridiculous deficit would get a huge help. By charging a very ...read more
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We're already taxed for access to the Internet and should not be taxed for using it. We are taxed by phone companies who provide land lines for dial-up or DSL services; we're t...read more
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People are currently indirectly taxed for using the Internet. Whether you have wireless access, high speed, or even dial-up access to the Internet, you pay for a connection to ...read more
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by V. Kumar
A tax on use of Internet does not satisfy a single criterion for a 'good tax'. CRITERIA FOR JUDGING A TAX The taxes are judged on the basis of certain characteristics. A '...read more
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Should you be taxed for using the Internet? Do we tax the free airwaves of TV and radio? No,of course we don't. Why would we want a tax on Internet usage? Is this a new proposal...read more
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by Ray Marr
The internet is a medium, one in which creativity is abound and readily apparent in blogs and other creative outlets. Why tax what has grown to the point it is today, because i...read more
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by Ethel Smith
Taxed for using the Internet, what ever next!. I know there is nothing so certain in life as death and taxes, to quote a famous saying, but don't we all pay enough taxes already...read more
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by Beki Ginn
Taxing would be unconstitutional if we have a right to freedom of speech. How could you tax ideas and the right to information. Wouldn't that move us into an "only the rich nee...read more
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by Duane Kuehn
Next, they will tax us for the polluted air we breathe! Enough is enough, we need to send a message to our leaders to evaluate the present taxation/spending and bring out defic...read more
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In the same vein of the Communist Military Authorities in Cuba, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, the Republican/Democratic/Milit ary Establishment has decided to tax the Internet and take aw...read more
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by Steven Chen
What reason could possibly justify taxing me for using the internet? That I'm wasting my time online when I could be much more productive offline? Of course it's ridiculous to t...read more
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by Greg Flowers
Since my parents purchased their home in 1978, their property and school taxes have more than doubled. Taxes on items such as gasoline and tobacco have gone through the roof. ...read more
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Two things in life are certain . Death and taxes. Try as you may to avoid them, both will catch up with you in the end. As I understand it governments require taxation as t...read more
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Finally the American public has found a safe haven from the receiving end of taxation, and someone is out there plotting and scheming to figure out how to milk this cash cow ca...read more
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I don't think we should be taxed for the sale of something on the net.If the United States tried to put a tax on US web sites,how could this happen with so many of the sites ...read more
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by Charlets
We already paid taxes for having a computer or phone, so why do you need to add more taxes in using Internet? I subscribed for Internet connection,I paid taxes on it and then if...read more
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Definitely NO! If we start taxing Internet use I imagine that would just about do it in. The Internet is already wavering from computer viruses, identity theft, computer fraud, ...read more
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by Aeryk Thomas
Taxed for my method of free speech? I don't think so. Since its initial creation in the fifties and sixties, the Internet has grown from a small exchange of data into possibl...read more
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by Jeg Brown
They tried a little experiment several hundred years ago in Europe and even since then in countries around the world. Every time they have tried this experiment it has failed. T...read more
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by Geoff Weed
The government, in modern-day Western-world societies, is nothing more than an extension of the will of the populace. In a democracy, or a representative republic, the governme...read more
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I pay taxes when I pay my internet provider. Further than that I should not have to pay any further taxes. Charging people for the use of internet would basically ruin what...read more
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