French lawmakers add $11.2 billion internet tax based on traffic usage to budget, costs $0.06 per gigabyte of content accessed — law still has to pass Senate approval, US tech giants like Google and Meta could face new taxes on content[Updated]
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France's proposed data levy could raise €10 billion annually from major content providers.
  • AliOski@feddit.nlEnglish
    31·
    15 hours ago

    “Draconian taxes” meanwhile France is in draconian debt.

    France will go bankrupt if they dont cut their government spending by a huge amount. But any proposal in that direction causes riots. So instead their government is just driving at full speed towards bankruptcy.

      • AliOski@feddit.nlEnglish
        21·
        12 hours ago

        Billionaire Tax isn’t even enough.

        The problem is that all the boomers are retiring and demographically and economically that’s just impossible to keep up with. Their government has the highest debt of Europe, but meanwhile the lowest retiring age of all and a huge bureaucracy. 1 in 3 French people work for the government. It is just not possible, no matter who or how much you tax people.

        • Blisterexe@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          11 hours ago

          My point is that it’s ridiculous to propose a regressive tax on internet when the zucman tax was voted down earlier this year

            • Blisterexe@lemmy.zipEnglish
              1·
              11 hours ago

              They aren’t socialists, they’re members of the center-left neoliberal “parti socialiste”.

              The solution to the debt crisis is not regressive taxes and austerity, that’s what Macron’s been doing and it’s only gotten worse.

    • acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      13 hours ago

      i didn’t say they shouldn’t increase taxes at all. the point is they keep implementing taxes that disproportionately impact lower and middle class people.