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Re:France has approved a digital services tax despite threat... by AdrianB1 on Thursday July 11, 2019 @06:15PM (#20416401)
You made the point of the government selling services, not about France taxes. I responded to that point.
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Re:France has approved a digital services tax despite threat... by braythwayt on Thursday July 11, 2019 @10:22PM (#20417582)
Ah.

Well, I was arguing that the government is NOT in the business of selling services, and that is why taxes for the mot part are not based on consumption.

Ideally—from my perspective as a product member of the Socialist Republic of Kanuckistan—taxes based on consumption are not about “fairness” but about creating disincentives for undesirable exploitation of resources.

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