[LINK] MasterCard and Visa want to play politics - then, game on.

[Jon Seymour]

I have concrete suggestion for a campaign idea.

The Australian Parliament, for example, could reserve for itself the
right to impose a "freedom tax" on payment services like PayPal,
MasterCard and Visa.

The tax rate would be set at 0% as a gesture of good will. However, if
they fail to reverse their decision or ever act in this way again, the
Parliament could choose to alter the rate to some  non-zero
percentage.

The collected tax would be either returned to the consumer or to a
media organisation of the consumers &/or the Parliament's choice.

This would serve to take payment services out of the political arena
or provide a useful source of revenue to fund investigative journalism
and other freedom preserving projects.

Once the idea of taxing payment services is accepted, payment services
will rue they day they abandoned the rule of law to exercise political
muscle.

jon.