Comments on: Taxing the Net http://blog.simeonov.com/2008/11/05/taxing-the-net/ Simeon Simeonov on entrepreneurship, innovation & venture capital Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:31:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Vlado http://blog.simeonov.com/2008/11/05/taxing-the-net/#comment-17736 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:21:14 +0000 http://simeons.wordpress.com/?p=370#comment-17736 Oh, how they love taxing the staple essentials and the unstoppable – always having ‘special rates’ and formats (excise, duty, license) for things that people keep on using in good times and bad times. From salt, booze and cigarettes – to fuel/transport and phone calls. None of these things is so heavily taxed to discourage usage, but precisely because usage goes on no matter what.

Speaks tons about the place the Net has taken in our lives :)

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