Tax IVF 100%

Tax John Howard (0.00 / 0)

at 100% so he can no longer afford the equipment and bandwidth to mention lunacies like this on RMG.

"I acknowledge having racist and classist and sexist feelings of white male superiority." -John Howard

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by: ElectricStrawberry @ Mon Jul 16, 2012 at 19:12:37 PM UTC

Sure, tax bandwidth use (0.00 / 0)

I already paid the sales tax and I pay a good amount of tax on my Fios bill. But you are right, the bandwidth tax could be a lot more, to make people more aware of how much they are using. If we reduced bandwidth down to the minimum with more local storage, less redundancy, better programming, we could double internet speeds on the same equipment and not have to invest so much in higher bandwidth cables. RMG (Soapblox) is one of the worst offenders, I think it sends me close to 100K every time I refresh to see if ES has insulted me yet, and it's SO SLOW it drives me crazier. Can't we figure out a way to put a "Check for new replies" button on the page, or would that cut into your advertising revenues? When the same 20 people are responsible for half of your pageviews, it is really a little deceitful to charge advertisers by the pageview.

Anyhow, the idea is that we should tax the discretionary cost-drivers, the optional things that make necessary things more expensive for everyone else, so that people pay the whole social and environmental cost of their new technology, instead of rigging the system so that the rest of us subsidize their new technology for them.

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by: John Howard @ Mon Jul 16, 2012 at 19:23:24 PM UTC

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No no..... (0.00 / 0)

just tax YOU.  Tax every penny YOU have and would ever make so you cannot afford to pimp lunacies like this online.

"I acknowledge having racist and classist and sexist feelings of white male superiority." -John Howard

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by: ElectricStrawberry @ Mon Jul 16, 2012 at 19:38:11 PM UTC

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I got an Idea .... (0.00 / 0)

We charge people for "front row seating" on any John Howard versus ElectricStrawberry blog-offs.  Where once you sign in there is a link that takes you to the latest Howard/Strawberry fight.  I think $50 per year is a great price point to start at ... I'd pay for it.  

Molon Labe

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by: Republican Ram Rod Radio @ Tue Jul 17, 2012 at 18:25:35 PM UTC

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