“The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.” ThinkingWayImportantBigsGovernmentDifficultIssuesInternetTaxesTaxationThink Big Author:Milton Friedman
“The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues. It matters not whether its proponents have a 'D' or an 'R' after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.” MatterGovernmentMovingUsedNamesCasesIssuesCuttingInternetTaxesIncreaseClothingsSheepFairnessTypicalRevenueUnwillingExpendituresTax IncreasesPloyWolves In Sheep's Clothing Author:Bob Barr
“Maybe we need a tax credit for the poorest Americans to buy a laptop. Now, maybe that's wrong, maybe that's expensive, maybe we can't do it, but I'll tell you, any signal that we can send to the poorest Americans that says, 'We're going into a 21st century, third-wave information age, and so are you, and we want to carry you with us.'” WantNeedsAgeCenturyInformationInternetTaxesThirdsWaveCreditExpensiveFree Speech21st CenturySignalsPoorestLaptopsInformation Age Author:Newt Gingrich
“Undoubtedly Internet has reduced the possibilities of taxation. Why should I buy something here if I can buy it from a company in Japan or England or Brazil with a lower tax?” IfsShouldI CanCompanyPossibilityInternetTaxesEnglandJapanShould ITaxationBrazil Author:Milton Friedman
“Few Americans realize it, but the United Nations is driving to take control over the Internet. You remember, the folks who want a worldwide income tax and who put Syria and Iran on their Human Rights Committee.” WantHumansRememberNationsRealizingUnitedRightsInternetTaxesFolksHuman RightsDrivingIncomeIranSyriaCommitteesUnited NationsIncome TaxTake Control Author:Arthur L. Herman
“The 'Main Street' retailers ... see customers come to the store to locate items ... only to leave and order the items over the Internet just to escape the sales tax.” OrderStreetsInternetTaxesCustomersStoresItemsMain StreetRetailersSales Tax Author:John McCain
“I believe that Congress will and must act before then to renew its objections to multiple and discriminatory taxes on the Internet, as well as to taxes that inhibit Internet access.” BelieveWellsI BelieveInternetTaxesCongressAccessMultipleObjectionsInternet Access Author:John McCain
“We like to say the Internet is the ultimate library. But libraries are libraries because people come together and fund them through taxes. Libraries actually exist, all over the country, so why is it such a reach to imagine and to someday build a public institution that has a digital aspect to it? Of course the problem is that libraries and other public services are being defunded and are under attack, so there's a bigger progressive struggle this plays into.” PeopleCountryPlayProblemTogetherCoursesStruggleImagineInternetTaxesAspectUltimateBiggerInstitutionsLibrarySomedayDigitalFundProgressivePublic Service Author:Astra Taylor
“Now that the most interesting matter of identity is not what place someone was born in, but what point in time they are from - where they sit in relation to time. Age has become much more divisive than place. With the Internet and globalization, a twenty-year-old in New York has far more cultural references in common with a twenty-year-old in Nebraska than they do with a thirty-year-old who lives next door. National identity is what they trick you with when they want your feet in their army boots or your taxes in their bailouts.” AgeInterestingCommonIdentityInternetTaxesArmyRelationGlobalizationMost Interesting Author:Nick Laird