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What were the politicians thinking when they decided to tax the Internet?
by middleclick 12y ago
What were the politicians thinking when they decided to tax the Internet?
- patzal 12y agoone possible explanation is that it was just a communication trick, to make people talk about this instead of the corruption scandal which resulted in government officials being banned from entering the US. http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/2014/10/17/the-us-cancels-visas-for-hungarians-involved-in-corruption/ http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/2014/10/17/the-us-cancel...
- pestaa 12y agoTo distract the public opinion from talking about high priority officers being forbidden from entering the USA.
- xxs 12y agoThe technique is known as smoke&mirrors.
- eidyia 12y agopolitics is like a magic trick, "hey look here while am doing something else" only with a much less impressive finale, am afraid manipulation is a normal tactic =[
- spyder 12y agoProbably they were just searching for things that don't have some extra tax (above the already existing %27 VAT), and they found this weird Internet thing on that list. Also today the PM said: "We need to find an answer to the question where the giant extra profit made on the Internet goes and if we could keep some of it in Hungary."