Link: EUobserver.com.
Alain Lamassoure, a senior centre-right French MEP, has suggested that the EU levy a tax on SMS and email messages in a debate on the union’s future financing.
Alain Lamassoure should be looking at the ridiculous costs of SMS to his constituents and doing something about that; not suggesting a tax on the medium.
Internet subscibers already pay their respective service providers to use the internet. Why should we tolerate yet another prospective tax on E mails? Come on Monsieur lammassoure leave the internet alone!. We the EU citizens are not simply “battery chickens” to provide an endless source of revenue to maintain what most voters see already as an over beaureacratised parliament.