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Japan Considers Taxing of WiFi

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-thats-just-not-very-nice dept.

DoktorTomoe writes "According to an article at Asia Pacific Media Network, Japan plans to introduce a fee for using WLan. The changes necessary for such taxation could be made as early as 2005. "

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  1. tax would be on *hardware*, RTFA! by javaxman · · Score: 4, Informative

    I can't believe all the idiots on /. ...
    They're talking about an extra tax on wifi hardware, not on "usage" per se. The tax would be at time of sale. RTFA, people.

  2. Re:Tax everything by pilgrim23 · · Score: 3, Informative

    The classic example of basic research and its applicability is illustrated by the visit of Prime Minister Gladstone to the laboratory
    of Michael Faraday. Gladstone asked Faraday whether he thought this esoteric substance called "electricity" would ever have any practical uses. Faraday's reply was, "ONE DAY, SIR YOU WILL TAX IT."
    From Editorial in Science 26:735 11 Feb 1994 by Daniel E. Koshland
    Jr.

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    - Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum.
  3. Re:Tax everything by rock_climbing_guy · · Score: 2, Informative
    You took that from US President Ronald Reagan,


    Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases:

    If it moves, tax it.
    If it keeps moving, regulate it.
    And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

    Those are his words.

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    Wh47 d1d j00 541, 31337 15n't t3h r0xor5 ne m0r3???