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French lawmakers add $11.2 billion internet tax based on traffic usage to budget, costs $0.06 per gigabyte of content accessed — law still has to pass Senate approval. (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 42 points 1 week ago (10 children)

It's a proposed law... like most laws, it will almost certainly die along the way, or be altered to irrelevance.

Think through this for a hot second about how such a law could affect EU internal trade and complicate external trade. Of course it will die.

Stop hyperventilating.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 week ago (8 children)

    i mean france has passed similarly draconian taxes before that caused riots.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago (6 children)

    "Draconian taxes" meanwhile France is in draconian debt.

    France will go bankrupt if they dont cut their government spending by a huge amount. But any proposal in that direction causes riots. So instead their government is just driving at full speed towards bankruptcy.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago (4 children)

    But they won't pass a billionaire tax either.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago (3 children)

    Billionaire Tax isn't even enough.

    The problem is that all the boomers are retiring and demographically and economically that's just impossible to keep up with. Their government has the highest debt of Europe, but meanwhile the lowest retiring age of all and a huge bureaucracy. 1 in 3 French people work for the government. It is just not possible, no matter who or how much you tax people.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago (2 children)

    My point is that it's ridiculous to propose a regressive tax on internet when the zucman tax was voted down earlier this year

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago

    Lemmy's pretty good about getting to the meat of a thing, but other platforms will breathlessly report a proposed law by a freshmen state congressmen as a done deal. Some dude's been in his state's congress for a few months, proposes some bullshit to get his name in the news, and it works every damned time.

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