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Stepford, CA | Good Intention, Moronic Implementation So Senator KnowNothing from MN thinks a tax is going to stop spammers - I've got a couple questions for him. 1 - What happens when the perpetrators of spam move their servers off shore to another country not subject to the tax? and 2 - A piddly little tax will not hurt bulk spammers, it will hurt the rest of us using email legitimately. Case in point - take one look at snail mail junk. These people buy postage in bulk so even if you do return the postage paid envelope empty to them it's no big deal because the junk mailer paid less than a penny for the postage.
Realistically speaking, imposing taxes on email will do nothing to stem the tide of spam - it's too far gone for simplistic measures to have any kind of effect. The remedy lies in creating more sophisticated filters to catch spam.
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