Quote Originally Posted by Fragony
Afraid not, they actually want to tax e-mails.
Well, "they" is a French conservative politician. The amount is BTW 0,00001 cent per email. If this comes, you'll have a tough choice every day what to do with your money: a can of coke, or send 60 million emails.

I still think it's a bad idea but it's neither new nor crazy. It may still come as a surprise to some but yes, the EU costs money. Sooner or later it will have to start raising its own taxes. Because that's what governments do, isn't it? Right now, the budget of the EU is tiny.

Why can't we tax politicians?
Actually, after the idea of taxing emails didn't make it last time in Italy, an Italian politician suggested exactly that. Politicians should pay per word they speak.
On the other hand, if I had a cent for every time an Europhobe has an hysteric reaction, I could already send billions of emails.