[governance] Hmmmm... Google: "Internet Freedom!"... (from taxes?

[Mawaki Chango]

I was wondering why would this discussion take the tackle of "all or
nothing" or one of a zero sum game. Obviously Market doesn't fall from the
sky and it also benefits from taxes (infrastructure, education, order and
law enforcement, etc. as Dominique rightly points out taking the words out
of my fingertips.) Are we even sure whether the taxes companies (principal
market players) are paying or not paying are even anywhere near what the
almighty Market would've had them pay at its own rate for those
(common/collective/public) goods?

Some of you know that I'm not at all an anti-market person. We need market
and competition AND we need taxes and a fair distribution of the tax
burden. We also need to keep tabs on governments to manage taxes
efficiently. But that is not saying the market has all the right answers or
that the solution is always more taxes.

Best,

mawaki


2012/12/3 Dominique Lacroix <dl at panamo.eu>

>  The Bermuda Triangle, where money disappear...
> http://www.panamo.eu/internet/5/tax-cut-tlds/
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> @+, Dominique
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