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French lawmakers add $11.2 billion internet tax based on traffic usage to budget, costs $0.06 per gigabyte of content accessed — law still has to pass Senate approval. (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My point is that it's ridiculous to propose a regressive tax on internet when the zucman tax was voted down earlier this year

[–] AliOski@feddit.nl 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well... ask the socialists that proposed it what their reasoning was...

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They aren't socialists, they're members of the center-left neoliberal "parti socialiste".

The solution to the debt crisis is not regressive taxes and austerity, that's what Macron's been doing and it's only gotten worse.