Nasz cudowny system kreacji pieniądza poprzez kredyt, już dawno temu zaczął pożerać własny ogon... właściwie to już mu on chyba kolejny raz dupą wychodzi...
Siłą rzeczy podatki muszą rosnąć by było z czego spłacać coraz to większe odsetki, od ciągle rosnącego globalnego kredytu, zwanego "pieniędzmi".
Tak więc gdy wiek emerytalny podniesiemy już do 100 lat, a VAT, PIT i CIT do 100% - to co dalej?
Trzeba będzie wymyślić jakieś nowe podatki aby ratować ten nasz cudowny tonący okręt, zwany "światową ekonomią".
I stąd najnowszy pomysł, prosto z serca Europy: globalny podatek na dostawców treści internetowych.
Już niedługo będzie dyskutowany na forum ONZ.
A abstrahując od kreacji pieniądza, która jest takim trochę żartem a'propos, z tego co rozumiem ową propozycję, wygląda ona tak:
Europejskim ISP (m.in. France Telecom, Telecom Italia, Vodafone) nie wystarcza już to, że każdy z nas płaci im abonament za dostęp do internetu. Więc chcą żeby dodatkowo ci, z których serwisów korzystamy (np. Google, czy Apple), płacili im ekstra z drugiej strony...
I bynajmniej nic nie wspominają o tym, że nam wtedy obniżą abonament na internet - logika podpowiada raczej coś przeciwnego: że dostawcy treści internetowych, przerzucą dodatkowy koszt na odbiorców owych treści - czyli na nas
U.N. could tax U.S.-based Web sites, leaked docs show
Global Internet tax suggested by European network operators, who want Apple, Google, and other Web companies to pay to deliver content, is proposed for debate at a U.N. agency in December.
The United Nations is considering a new Internet tax targeting the largest Web content providers, including Google, Facebook, Apple, and Netflix, that could cripple their ability to reach users in developing nations.
The European proposal, offered for debate at a December meeting of a U.N. agency called the International Telecommunication Union, would amend an existing telecommunications treaty by imposing heavy costs on popular Web sites and their network providers for the privilege of serving non-U.S. users, according to newly leaked documents.
The documents (No. 1 No. 2) punctuate warnings that the Obama administration and Republican members of Congress raised last week about how secret negotiations at the ITU over an international communications treaty could result in a radical re-engineering of the Internet ecosystem and allow governments to monitor or restrict their citizens' online activities.
"It's extremely worrisome," Sally Shipman Wentworth, senior manager for public policy at the Internet Society, says about the proposed Internet taxes. "It could create an enormous amount of legal uncertainty and commercial uncertainty."
The leaked proposal was drafted by the European Telecommunications Network Operators Association, or ETNO, a Brussels-based lobby group representing companies in 35 nations that wants the ITU to mandate these fees.
While this is the first time this proposal been advanced, European network providers and phone companies have been bitterly complaining about U.S. content-providing companies for some time. France Telecom, Telecom Italia, and Vodafone Group, want to "require content providers like Apple and Google to pay fees linked to usage," Bloomberg reported last December.
ETNO refers to it as the "principle of sending party network pays" -- an idea borrowed from the system set up to handle payments for international phone calls, where the recipient's network set the per minute price. If its proposal is adopted, it would spell an end to the Internet's long-standing, successful design based on unmetered "peered" traffic, and effectively tax content providers to reach non-U.S. Internet users.
The sender-pays framework would likely prompt U.S.-based Internet services to reject connections from users in developing countries, who would become unaffordably expensive to communicate with, predicts Robert Pepper, Cisco's vice president for global technology policy.
Developing countries "could effectively be cut off from the Internet," says Pepper, a former policy chief at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. The ETNO plan, he says, "could have a host of very negative unintended consequences."
It's not clear how much the taxes levied by the ETNO's plan would total per year, but observers expect them to be in the billions of dollars. Government data show that in 1996, U.S. phone companies paid their overseas counterparts a total of $5.4 billion just for international long distance calls.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-5744937.....docs-show/
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