IP: Re: Clinton ratifies Illegal Internet Tax - bad day for US

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 01:31:13 -0400
From: Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>




At 10:14 PM 5/1/98 -0400, Tony Rutkowski wrote:
>>Cool, the US just collected tax world-wide, and confiscated it into the
>>US Treasury.  I wonder what all the other governments who had citizens
..
>the world - the people contributing their 15 bucks should 
>consider it miniscule payback.


Given that that 15 bucks was formally determined to be an illegal tax,
shouldn't folks with professional training in the law be more concerned
with the violation than with the statistics?  


Although the law does have differential punishment according to the amount
of money stolen, even the smallest amount taken through illegal means is a
crime.  Why should an illegal tax be somehow acceptable just because it is
small?


Come to think of it, I wonder how much the government of Switzerland should
be charging the rest of us for the use of the Web, since that's where it
was invented?


d/
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