Music Tax?

There is currently a proposal (by Warner Music) to add a mandatory tax of $5.00 to all the Internet Service Providers, hence, charged to consumers. This tax is for the sole purpose to pay the music industry for all their "lost" revenue from piracy. This is not the first time th e Music Industry has attempted to use government to guarantee their revenue streams.

I take serious exception to this so called "tax" I don't think it is right for all internet users to pay for something only some people will do. Some argue that it is similar to people paying property tax of which a portion goes to schools and those having no children. Paying road tax for roads some may never drive on. They say we have to pay for something that everyone likes or uses.

How brainwashed have you people become to think that subsidisation of private industry is indistinguishable from a functioning society paying our fair share for that society as a whole. This is not a proposed tax to benefit our children's education nor build roads to transport groceries to a store. It is to be used to prop up the rapidly decaying model of a business plan that has shown itself to be fundamentally flawed. As a citizen of the United States of America, I do not feel obligated to pay a "tax" to support a private industry. And let me add that it is not some kind of crucial private industry such as the Prescription Drug industry...it is for Entertainment Companies.

And while we are on that vein, let me press upon you some other thoughts:

Many of the statesmen in government also sit on the boards of some of the most profitable companies in the world and made a case for war , went to war and created a new market with their war, then bar their competitors from the aftermath. Then they come back and speak evangelically about free markets, when it is really a vast protectionist racket. When their companies are awarded $2.3 billion contracts and their stock prices jump 145%...these aren't subtle facts. It is not only our right to question our leaders, it is our responsibility. We should expose, and shame and indite and possibly convict those in this illegal, immoral ideology.

Our government is being hollowed out and being turned into an ATM for big corporations.

I don't think all corporations are evil. I own a Frigidaire, but it is not subsidized by the government nor does it kill people. Unless there is something about refrigerators of which I am unaware.