Re: [tlug] Japan to Tax E-Content

[Jason Frisch <jfrisch@example.com>]

Hmm..20%+ of the budget is interest payments on the debt, another 25% or so is social security and a bankrupt health system.

Nothing to do with roads or navy, and the police are pretty much useless anyway.  Schools? I would prefer private schools were less regulated and hence cheaper.

Nearly 60% of the record budgets is debt funded.

Cutting pork barreling won’t make the situation worse. What we need is a default on the debt, and start afresh. 

There is no other way (apart from high inflation which is the more politically correct way and exactly what 

Abe is trying to achieve). 

So, trying to get a few more billions by taxing small business that create the jobs (and large) addition consumption tax on 

the licenses etc they buy from overseas, isn’t going to help anyway. This isn’t just for companies that sell into Japan, but 

any company that buys from abroad will have to fork out the tax instead.

But it will make some people think things will get better, and get the government some votes.

Jason

2014/01/15 14:14、Edmund Edgar <lists@example.com> のメール：

On 15 January 2014 13:47, Jason Frisch <jfrisch@example.com> wrote:

How about stop the reckless spending, fix the worlds largest debt problem (yes, I know it’s impossible) and cut taxes?

You speak as if stealing more money from the population is a solution to something :-)

OK, I have to say a bit unconvinced by a proposal that begins with taking a near-impossible problem and making it worse. There's some spending that could be cut, and some policy choices that would result in more revenue, but Japan's tax burden isn't generally outrageously high; If you want police and roads and schools and a navy big enough to protect you from marauding Hawaiians, you're going to need a fair amount of tax revenue. Japan's government just doesn't have enough money. This is a very serious problem, and stealing more money from the population is part of the solution to it.

In the imaginary world where Japan had the luxury of cutting consumption taxes, buyers of digital content probably wouldn't be top of the list of people who need a break.

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