Berkley Councilman Proposes Taxation on Emails To Save Postal Service

by William Teach | March 9, 2013 7:42 am

What would you expect from a confirmed Leftist in Berkley?

(Huff Post[1]) If the post office is going to go down, perhaps it should at least go down with a fight.

Gordon Wozniak, a city councilman in Berkeley, Calif., has proposed an email tax[2] to provide much-needed revenue to the ailing U.S. Postal Service, local blog Berkleyside reports. The idea comes amid efforts to avoid the sale of a local post office building due to the service’s flagging revenue, both locally and on the national scale: In its latest budget year, the U.S. Postal Service lost more than $15 billion.

“There should be something like a bit tax,” Wozniak said, according to CBS Berkeley[3]. “I mean a bit tax could be a cent per-gigabit and they would still make, probably, billions of dollars a year… And there should be, also, a very tiny tax on email.”

Unsurprisingly, Wozniak has donated[4] to Democrat groups. Not unsurprisingly, the ideas to save the postal service never seem to include things like streamlining operations, reforming the pension system, or anything else that a private sector business would do.

“The internet being free gives it an advantage which is impacting the post office negatively,” he said. “The bit tax is a pretty painless way to help even the playing field.”

I think we should enact a miles per travel tax on automobiles in order to even the playing field with horse travel, which has suffered quite a bit since the invention of the automobile. Because nothing should ever change, and it’s a shame that no one travels across country in horse drawn caravans.

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Endnotes:
  1. Huff Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/08/email-tax-post-office-gordon-wozniak_n_2838324.html
  2. proposed an email tax: http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/03/07/wozniaks-email-tax-good-sense-or-nonsense/
  3. Wozniak said, according to CBS Berkeley: http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/03/07/berkeley-councilman-proposes-email-tax-to-fund-postal-service/
  4. donated: https://www.opensecrets.org/usearch/?q=Wozniak&searchButt_clean.x=25&searchButt_clean.y=29&cx=010677907462955562473%3Anlldkv0jvam&cof=FORID%3A11
  5. Pirate’s Cove: http://www.thepiratescove.us/
  6. @WilliamTeach: http://twitter.com/WilliamTeach

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