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THE INTERNET TEA PARTY

"When you've got a job to do, you've got to do it well, you've got to give the other fella hell..." -Paul McCartney

I've yet to be forgiven taxes when I pay my internet server. As we all are aware, when buying a computer, we will pay taxes. We also pay taxes for operating systems and things we buy over the internet.

So, should there be a cut and dried government enforced tax on internet? No. As a tax on internet could be the very defining means of the poor having no access. I think that it is important for the poor to have access to the internet for a variety of reasons. You keep them ignorant enough with your overcrowded school systems and your cutting politics. So, they might not ever take over the world, but they can communicate and utilize that first amendment right, which, I think is so very valuable to societal sanity.

What a stupid question. Should we be taxed for reading the newspaper? Should we be taxed for listening to the radio? Should we be taxed for communicating? We are already taxed for electricity, as though staying warm in the winter is a privelege and not a right by means of our physiology.

By taxing the internet, you are not taxing a thing, you are taxing a concept, which is itself not readily available to the human eye and consideration without a computer. Therefore, you are taxing the air we breath. An invisible thing made visible by means of a computer.

Should we also tax thinking?

If I pay taxes for gas service, should I also pay a tax on the flame? How intrusively greedy. Wierd beyond words. Since what I use is gas and not flame. Flame uses gas. I merely warm myself thereby. Shall I pay a tax for the mere experience of staying warm?

If I pay tax when I purchase a violin, should I also pay tax each time I play it? Should I be taxed each time I watch television?

Should I or my children be taxed for every book we read?

What will you use the tax for? Paying some lazy ass morons to oversee the internet activity of citizens?

It is infringement on the right to privacy and freedom of speech to tax the internet since it would and would have to involve monitoring of such.

Stand back Uncle Sam, for I am not your enemy, but your reminder. Either this is America, built upon the constitution or, we are a land of insane who think we are free and your overlords are little more than cancerous cells of oppression.

Taxation of the internet. How ludicrously hilarious.

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