Internet Tax

The Dutch government wants to save the newspapers and their little projects by adding tax to internet connections. It is going downhill for newspapers for quite a few years now, free newspapers and online news sites are far more populair than the paper versions. Lower advertising income is another cause to the deminishing of paper popularity.

As far as i'm concerned this is one of the biggest bullshit and time consuming discussions in the Dutch parliament. The people in The Hague are often busy with minor discussions about things they shouldn't be discussing about so it is not a surprise that they are talking about this. I'm opposed as you might have mentioned to internet tax for the benefit of a complete other business branche just for the purpose of saving that branche. We have a lot of news papers here and if a few go extinct, no one realy cares, it's not the protection of animal or plant life we are talking about, it's just a fucking news paper.

The news papers themselves have invested millions in internet, but every project is failing because they stick to their old conservative way of doing things. Internet is a whole new world, a new generation of users, of individuals. So the news paper companies should adapt or go extinct, don't try to get more money for doing the wrong business and clutter out internet, just for the purpose of journalism. I realy hate the arrogancy of those big companies, they are crying like babies with our government and are themselves not flexible enough to change their way of working.

Or should we introduce more tax on other product to save traditional companies? Should we raise taxes on cars to save the bicycle industry? Should we raise taxes on getting money from the ATM to save the banks? No, this is just another time waisting discussion for which the tax payers pay and which will only cost them more money in favor of a rotten industry.