On: The Digital Advertising Duopoly

[username223]

These people project that we'll be setting $105 billion on fire for digital ads by 2019. To put that in perspective, it's more than 10% of what we spend to provide health care to seniors and poor people via a mostly dysfunctional health care system: https://www.hhs.gov/about/budget/fy2017/budget-in-brief/cms/...

[mlinksva → username223]

Solution: tax ads.

[jpadkins → mlinksva]

we already do

[mlinksva → jpadkins]

I don't know what jurisdiction you're in, but would love a reference.

As far as I know in the U.S. there's a long history of talking about specifically taxing ads, but very little and brief doing. One overview: http://www.taxhistory.org/thp/readings.nsf/ArtWeb/E6C2E18E1E...