A Berkeley, California councilman wants to tax emails to fund the Post Office. Seton Motley compares this idea to taxing Ford to prop up the horse and buggy industry.

Gordon Wozniak suggested that using email, which is partially responsible for killing off demand for letter-carrying services, could save “vital functions” of the post office, the news site Berkleyside reported.

“There should be … a very tiny tax on email,” he told the City Council. “There should be something like a bit tax. I mean, a bit tax could be a cent per gigabit and they would still make, probably, billions of dollar a year.”

The problem is, such a levy wouldn’t be legal unless the Internet Tax Freedom Act is allowed to expire in 2014.

As Motley pointed out, this isn’t the first time a leftist has proposed taxing emails.

“The Case for Taxing E-Mail” (New York Times staff editorial – 2009)

United Nations Proposes Global Email Tax (1999)

I’m sure it won’t be the last time, either.

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