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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 it offered the common person to make a presence available to the world along with an ability to make something they enjoy, without the hassle of dealing with the cut throat business world. The internet is a wonderful opportunity keep it free.

Why tax such a medium, that has made such a difference in so many peoples life. You give your Uncle Sam, so much money already, should you not be able to keep some for yourself. To tax the internet is like taxing your creative rights. Does that make sense to you? Though often the case is one in which the brick and mortar economy would rather money be spent in the many stores instead of via an access point to the world.

To put control of what has long been an open source idea, not within a select few hands in the interest of taxation. Instead in the hands of the people, the common man, woman or child, an ability to create something that is their own. When the internet first began, when it was called ARPA Net, long before the extensive commercialization. It was used as a way to accumulate information, collaboration. In its early stages, it was in a select few, the difference those select few saw its potential as integrated information system. Not just another vehicle for taxation but as a way to share thoughts among colleagues.

To tax something that started as open source, in an attempt to curb a market's exploding potential, seems very much like curbing the rights you were granted when the constitution was first enacted. The idea of free speech constantly mentioned. Free speech in a free medium such as the internet. The ability to carve your own space in such a wondrous thing. To tax it would make little or no sense. Of course few websites do enact tax but others do not, a majority in fact.

As things are so much more open sourced so the internet should be, in the hands of the public as a creative outlet, and a vehicle to an end. Non Taxed and available to those who want access to the information so readily available as each moment passes another person creates a site, carving there own niche out of an immense vehicle available to the world open and not taxed.

Thanks for Reading ... Keep the internet free to the world at large, so the information can continue to flow unbiased and available to any who so wish offer their opinions on the diverse matters that affect each person everyday. The world can continually be aware from something besides main stream media. That which makes the most sense to the common man, woman or child.

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