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It may be unreasonable, but it's exactly how it works today. Look at your bill.
by wahern 8y ago
It may be unreasonable, but it's exactly how it works today. Look at your bill.
- qwerty456127 8y agoDo you really mean you pay both the telecom subscription + some kind of state/federal tax that depends on how much did you speak/download? I certainly don't and never did, this probably differs between countries.
- wahern 8y agoAFAIU I pay fixed surcharges per account but I fail to see how, say, a per-SMS tax would violate the First Amendment while taxing each individual sale of a newspaper does not. In the U.S. we also have a constitutional right to freedom of travel but that doesn't make a gasoline tax unconstitutional. Generally speaking, the First Amendment prohibits the government from regulating the content of speech, not the speech itself.
- rhacker 8y agoIt may also never have had a legal challenge. we may very well live to see a day where taxing communication is rendered... illegal. Things change. Remember 30 years ago where people could smoke inside a grocery store? How mind-warpingly fast things can change right?