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Re:Hungary Internet tax cancelled after mass protests by middleclick on Friday October 31, 2014 @06:58AM (#8538151)
What were the politicians thinking when they decided to tax the Internet?
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Re:Hungary Internet tax cancelled after mass protests by patzal on Friday October 31, 2014 @07:03AM (#8538158)
one possible explanation is that it was just a communication trick, to make people talk about this instead of the corruption scandal which resulted in government officials being banned from entering the US.

http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/2014/10/17/the-us-cancel...

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Re:Hungary Internet tax cancelled after mass protests by pestaa on Friday October 31, 2014 @07:03AM (#8538159)
To distract the public opinion from talking about high priority officers being forbidden from entering the USA.
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Re:Hungary Internet tax cancelled after mass protests by xxs on Friday October 31, 2014 @07:14AM (#8538179)
The technique is known as smoke&mirrors.
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Re:Hungary Internet tax cancelled after mass protests by spyder on Friday October 31, 2014 @06:37PM (#8541445)
Probably they were just searching for things that don't have some extra tax (above the already existing %27 VAT), and they found this weird Internet thing on that list.

Also today the PM said:

"We need to find an answer to the question where the giant extra profit made on the Internet goes and if we could keep some of it in Hungary."

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