eicker@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoFrench 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.comexternal-linkmessage-square45linkfedilinkarrow-up1199arrow-down133
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minus-squareBlisterexe@lemmy.zipcakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoMy point is that it’s ridiculous to propose a regressive tax on internet when the zucman tax was voted down earlier this year
minus-squareAliOski@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoWell… ask the socialists that proposed it what their reasoning was…
minus-squareBlisterexe@lemmy.zipcakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoThey aren’t socialists, they’re members of the center-left neoliberal “parti socialiste”. The solution to the debt crisis is not regressive taxes and austerity, that’s what Macron’s been doing and it’s only gotten worse.
My point is that it’s ridiculous to propose a regressive tax on internet when the zucman tax was voted down earlier this year
Well… ask the socialists that proposed it what their reasoning was…
They aren’t socialists, they’re members of the center-left neoliberal “parti socialiste”.
The solution to the debt crisis is not regressive taxes and austerity, that’s what Macron’s been doing and it’s only gotten worse.