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Why The Paper's In Trouble
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I'm sorry, I have to repeat a topic because someone's written a defense of a spectacularly stupid, wrong-headed idea and it bears repeating: a tax on email to prop up the Postal Service is a ridiculous, Luddite idea, supported, naturally, by L.A. Times columnist George Skelton, who, quite literally, has never seen a tax he didn't support. If you propose taxing everyone 100% to pay for the Governor's trips to Kauai, he'd be for it. Anyway, the idea that the tax would mostly hurt spammers is wrong, since most spam originates from places like Russia and would keep going unabated and untaxable. The burden would be on regular ol' American working stiffs. And it would go to pay for the salaries of union-protected workers whose jobs are no longer necessary. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Forget the Berkeley (of course) councilman who came up with the idea, because as a resident of an Ivory Tower People's Republic, he has no reason to understand the real world. But an L.A. Times columnist should know better. (Los Angeles Times)
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