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Berkeley Councilman Proposes Taxing Email to Fund Post Office
March 8, 2013
By Daniel Greenfield
Unsurprisingly heÂ’s a Democrat. Even more unsurprisingly, heÂ’s a former Grad student. Wozniak is not too bad by Berkeley standards. He took a common sense position that would have prevented the Code Pink protests and called for ending BerkeleyÂ’s ban on nuclear power investments.
But Berkeley is still Berkeley.
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Want to upload 40 photos from your iPhone to Instagram? That will be 40 cents. Each song would carry a 2-3 cent tax. Downloading a game? Get ready to pay 4 bucks tax.
The troubling thing is that it is feasible. Unlike Gordon WozniakÂ’s proposal, coming from a man who got on Twitter once in 2010 and hasnÂ’t used it since, it could work. It would also be quite creepy and totalitarian.
One more reason that America needs to be a UN-Free Zone.
Berkeley Councilman Proposes Taxing Email to Fund Post Office
