Re: ugnet_: Govt to tax Television Sets! - desperation!!!

[J Ssemakula]

There is nothing unusual about a TX-tax in and of itself. I hear even the UK has such a tax. And if anyone cared to examine their cable bills in good-old US of A  (phone-bill, utilities bill, etc), they will make the astounding discoveries that such taxes are indeed a common occurrnce.

E.g.

www.radio.cz/en/article/50158 (Czeck Republic)

www.professors.org.il/docs/20020317-jp-pollak.html  http://israeleconomy.org/nbn/nbn99.htm(Israel)

http://vigilant.tv/article/3537 (Australia)

www.international.ethz.ch/living/int_radio.html (Switzerland)

www.cphpost.dk/get/59346.html (Denmark)

... etc, etc ....

The other discovery would be that these are not always puny taxes, e.g. www.sltrib.com/2004/Feb/02102004/utah/137534.asp

www.house.gov/sensenbrenner/wc20021017.html (stealth tax on the unaware)

www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/insider/archives/000109.html  (satellite TV tax proposal in California)

www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00022.html (satellite TV tax approved in Ohio)

 

Yaaaawn! Wake up and smell the coffee ... I guess there is still no free lunch on terra firma!

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Subject: Re: ugnet_: Govt to tax Television Sets!  - desperation!!!

Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 18:26:34 EST

In a message dated 2/19/2004 3:15:40 PM Eastern Standard Time,

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> This is the most desperate tax the govt of Uganda has ever introduced!!

> How can they tax poor Ugandans for owning a TV for UgShs 10,000/=??  Our

> country will never develop!!  Are they taxing Ugandans for recieving information

> off a TV or what??  This is the most stupid thing I've heard.  a TV

> tax???!!!!!!!!!

>

>

Rehema: If there is nothing more you can squeeze from a people, then you have

to try by all means necessary to squeeze citizens until blood comes out!.....

The desperate  NRM move to institute so called "TV TAX" in Uganda should be

seen in that light. The NRM has failed to create a vibrate tax base (by

creating good JOBS for wanainchiees ) in Uganda.  Sad state of affair indeed!!

Matek

"The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the

people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It

thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to

repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by

extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the state."

- Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels - Hitler's propaganda minister

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