4/ Still, if you dig around in the Internet sewers of phone companies shadier than @shadytel, you can find SIP providers who list "call center" or "dialer" rates. And then you can begin get a sense of the economics of this.
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There is no legitimate reason for rate to grow. At the carrier level bandwidth is almost free.
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There are two legitimate reasons for taxation: funding public services and disincentivizing harmful economic activity. The latter especially applies here.
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The call recipient's attention does not scale and is a precious limited resource. Using taxes to defend it is a very good idea.
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I'd love to even have the option to force caller to pay $0.20 in taxes every time they call me.
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This would be an awesome way to fix & monetize Twitter too - give us a button on our @'s to have Twitter bill the sender $0.25.
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(Twitter keeps the money, it's purely to penalize unwanted @'ing.)
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You really don't see how rich bastards will find a way to exploit that and turn it into a revenue stream defeating any original purpose?
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There are about 3 ways I can think of to abuse this for profit but then again, I think like a hacker.
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