Re: Bitrate tax.

At 14.26 96-06-12, Eric Luyten wrote:
>(NOT a joke)
>
>The Belgian Minister for Telecommunications came up with the idea of
>introducing a "bitrate tax" on information transmission.
>A number of mainstream newspaper articles mentioned a similar initiative
>in the U.S. of A. (an important argument to convince adversaries !)
>The new tax is/was supposed to bring in between .3 and 3 billion ECU per
>annum.

And what would the consequensces be on creative communiations, new ideas
new companies and commerce? Why not put even more tax so that the budget's
get even more improved:-)

I think these are the best argument's on these matters.

--mats

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