Why “taxing” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
Weird smear. There are over 10,000 taxing jurisdictions in the US, so good luck with even trying to figure how many different taxes.
by bita_nidir · Oct 31, 2026
French government should buy a bunch of subscriptions like netflix or cheap games on Steam that have large download sizes and just download all day. Pay the monthly $20, then re…
by revolvingthrow · Oct 31, 2026
Wow it's almost like they're not taxing pirated music at all and are taxing gigabytes. I suppose France is more like a farm of users and they're not entitled to their natural re…
by neuroelectron · Oct 31, 2026
So two ways to look at tax: 1) How it changes behaviour (taxing something usually means less of that thing is produced, and sometimes you want less of something e.g. smoking as…
by a_humean · Oct 31, 2026
What is the reason? Seems like absolute taxing the wrong thing. It is not attached to any cost for the government, not revenue or income directly and I can't see a reason to put…
by temp123477 · Oct 31, 2026
I think that it was very strange how this became such an issue. Like, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone, who cares about another's gender expression? But it's such a tiny propor…
by disgruntledphd2 · Oct 31, 2026
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