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<DIV dir=ltr lang=en-us class=OutlookMessageHeader align=left><FONT size=2
face=Tahoma>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Arthur Cordell
[mailto:denart40@sympatico.ca] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, September 28, 2011
8:22 AM<BR><B>To:</B> 'michael gurstein'<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [governance] Can
a bit tax bring a New Wealth of Nations?<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
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list but it will take 24 hours before my name is
activated.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: windowtext">Meanwhile I offer
the link below which should answer some of questions.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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href="http://www.arraydev.com/commerce/jibc/9702-05.htm"><SPAN
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<H2 style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Taxing the Internet:
The Proposal for a Bit Tax<o:p></o:p></SPAN></H2>
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michael gurstein [mailto:gurstein@gmail.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday,
September 28, 2011 10:43 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Arthur Cordell<BR><B>Subject:</B> FW:
[governance] Can a bit tax bring a New Wealth of
Nations?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">-----Original
Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Daniel Kalchev [mailto:daniel@digsys.bg]
<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, September 28, 2011 2:00 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
governance@lists.cpsr.org; michael gurstein<BR><B>Cc:</B> 'Economics of IP
Networks'<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [governance] Can a bit tax bring a New Wealth
of Nations?</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><BR><BR>On 28.09.11 11:26, michael gurstein wrote:
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interesting suggestion that my friend Arthur Cordell has been advocating here in
Canada for a number of years.</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>If there's a new economy, there should be a new tax base. To
follow the information highway analogy, it would be similar to a gasoline tax,
or a toll on bridges or highways. Why not tax digital traffic, asks Arthur?
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<P class=MsoNormal>This was tried a number of times, in different forms in the
'traditional' telecoms and with the rise of Internet it was proved
absurd.<BR><BR>Just who the 'carriers' are? Do we tax international traffic
only? Or do we tax your home wireless network? What about the bluetooth traffic
between your mobile phone and your laptop? <BR><BR>Taxing traffic effectively
means you punish the more innovative and growing infrastructures and encourage
limiting connection speeds and eliminating protocols that generate excessive
traffic. We went trough great pains for many years to just ensure the
opposite...<BR><BR>One example of already taxing traffic is the radio frequency
allocation. You pay taxes for your allocated frequency band. While it is
possible to use higher density encoding to pack more (data) bandwidth into the
same frequency band, the difference is not much (and the cost increases
dramatically) because mathematical/physical limits come into play. Only by
introducing 'shared' and 'free for all' frequency bands it was possible to pack
lots and lots more (data) bandwidth in wireless networks.<BR><BR>Therefore,
wireless and satellite links already do pay taxes for their bits. It is only
fiber and copper lines that do not pay (yet). These are considered, by most
regulators to not be limited resource.<BR><BR>It is like paying a tax for the
light reaching one point from
another...<BR><BR>Daniel<BR><BR><BR><o:p></o:p></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>