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Netherlands: Tax on internet use to save newspapers
Read this article some days ago and im still confused about it, so i want to hear some opinions.
Because of the internets, newspaper memberships are slowly drying up. Why have a membership thats pretty expensive and all the trouble of delivering it to someone when you can just switchon the laptop (or by now, even the cellphone) to check all the news from allover the world for free.
Some dude in the dutch parlement wants every single person that has an internet connection to pay tax on it.
Why? Are they doing something to give poor people a better life?
No, to prevend the newspapers from slowly going bankrupt. They want to save them.
Even if i have to pay only 3-4 euros a month for it, which in turn makes the government earn billions, why the fuck would i want to save something i dont want to use, or is bound to die. Isnt that evolution?
Opinions please.
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