“The UK Government is planning a 50p-per-month levy on fixed-line connections to pay for next-generation broadband. The Government claims that market forces alone will bring fiber connections to only two thirds of the country, so it plans to use the ‘broadband tax’ to pay for the final third by 2017. The plans form part of the Government’s Digital Britain report, which also see the UK guarantee connections of 2Mbits/sec for every citizen by 2012.”
The report also threatens legal action and bandwidth restriction for repeat file sharers.
(via Slashdot)
This is Bloody ridiculous! What is it with governments and the need to tax everything they can. Pretty soon I’m expecting them to instil a Sunrise Tax when summer comes in. Maybe Tax you from when you’re born for how much air you might breathe in your lifetime.
With the entire scandal of MP’s very blatantly misusing Taxpayers money to fund their second homes and claim ridiculous expenses (even £5 charity donations). This new initiative is a real kick in the arse. If they used the budget they have properly they could not and should not be asking for more money from us. All it looks like is that these greedy bastards are too lazy to set up a and manage their own budgets properly and so when the shit hits the fan they just up the taxes some more to offset all the shit they’ve caused.
Bastards.
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