- A Californian councilman called Gordon Wozniak proposes that there should be a tax on email to reduce spam.
- He wants to give the money to the USPS (The United States Postal Service.)
[QUOTE=How it should(n't) be done]Emailing within a company would be tax-free. I'd allow everyone a certain number of untaxed, private emails a month — 100, maybe 200. After that, each message would cost one cent, up to a certain size. If they ran off the screen, they'd cost extra — just as a bulky letter costs more than a 46-cent stamp.
After 500 emails, the fare would be hiked to 2 cents to discourage the junk-mailers. Copy 500 people on one message, that's 500 emails.[/QUOTE]
Say [URL="http://articles.latimes.com/2013/mar/24/local/la-me-cap-email-tax-20130325"]news[/URL]
I would agree, but with other pricing. Make it something ridiculously low like 0.1 cents per email. That way the normal email-writer won't be affected as much, yet spammers will notice the price when they send millions of mails.
Huh?
how does a message go off the screen
there is different screen sizes
ahhhh
And then people route their emails through some other protocol.
What are you going to do about it? Tax HTTP requests?
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;40096030]And then people route their emails through some other protocol.
What are you going to do about it? Tax HTTP requests?[/QUOTE]
Tax each pixel as it is sent through the cloud, and install a proxy server to scan for viruses
So people need to register either their identity or some kind of payment system to create an email account? What if you email someone outside the US? What if they email you?
This is so incredibly unfeasible.
Terrible idea. How do you calculate who sent what?
What happens when malware gets onto a someone's server or even a local computer and sends spam via your inbox?
[QUOTE=bord2tears;40096056]Terrible idea. How do you calculate who sent what?[/QUOTE]
Calculate the mean of each integer and then backtrace it through the servers
[QUOTE=smurfy;40096041]Tax each pixel as it is sent through the cloud, and install a proxy server to scan for viruses[/QUOTE]
Let's stop complicating things and just tax every bit that passes through your router.
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;40096073]Let's stop complicating things and just tax every bit that passes through your router.[/QUOTE]
I agree. We could divide each bit by the gradient of the hypotenuse for a start
How would they even go about this?
I'm not the most tech savvy person around but email addresses aren't connected to a person, or a specific location (I thought?)
Sounds like a poor attempt to prop up another failure of a gov agency. I should pay cause USPS is obsolete.
[QUOTE=H8Entitlement;40096110]How would they even go about this?
I'm not the most tech savvy person around but email addresses aren't connected to a person, or a specific location (I thought?)
Sounds like a poor attempt to prop up another failure of a gov agency. I should pay cause USPS is obsolete.[/QUOTE]
I wouldn't say it's obsolete, but they should stop acting like we're in the 19th century.
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;40096151]I wouldn't say it's obsolete, but they should stop acting like we're in the 19th century.[/QUOTE]
They should refocus on package delivery as main source of income.
it can still be exploited even if the system was fully implemented and worked.
It's not even necessary, spam filters are so good, I haven't seen any in years.
Whats to stop me from creating my own email server and sending illegal untaxed emails?
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;40096073]Let's stop complicating things and just tax every bit that passes through your router.[/QUOTE]
Are you trying to single-handedly kill Steam?
[QUOTE=Kingy_ME;40096205]It's not even necessary, spam filters are so good, I haven't seen any in years.[/QUOTE]
Well except if they're using a shitty online E-mail provider, or their E-mail server has a shitty filter, or no filter at all.
[QUOTE=Noth;40096230]Are you trying to single-handedly kill Steam?[/QUOTE]
It would be the end of any kind of always-online DRM
[QUOTE]- A Californian councilman called Gordon Wozniak proposes that there should be a tax on email to reduce spam.
- He wants to give the money to the USPS (The United States Postal Service.)
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Applicable to US only. Because hey, spam comes from US only, that's a well known fact.
I cannot fathom the stupidity.
aaaand how would they enforce this?
Gotta love Gmail, good spam filter
[QUOTE=areolop;40096243]aaaand how would they enforce this?[/QUOTE]
HTML 5 of course
How about not signing up for a thousand news letters in which a few gives your email away to people who spam, or how about not clicking on shady links and installing movie.exe.
Email should be charged by character, which would reduce grammar further and we could use the collected tax money to instate email classes in the US so we generated tax money and spent it on the same thing
Too bad thats not how things work and its not enforceable
Spam isn't really a problem for me. Don't tax it you fool.
Plus it'd force email to be government regulated
Nobody wants that
[QUOTE=Tobba;40096428]Too bad thats not how things work and its not enforceable[/QUOTE]
Tobba
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