17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On Fri, 3 May 1996, Michael Loomis wrote:
circumvent consumption taxation. Consumption taxation would, of course, include a tax on the amount of information coming into your computer. I don't think that the government will have any problem determining the quantity of the information & since it will be encrypted anyway, I don't see the privacy worries.
Traffic analysis (though remailers would help). And what about mailbombing? If you're mailbombed, does your tax bill skyrocket? I think information has to be free (of tax, anyway), because there is no way to prove the utlility of information. -rich