Is the government going to tax your e-mail? Only on Fox

Is the government going to tax your e-mail? Only on Fox:

Berkeley City Councilman Gordon Wozniak has floated the idea of an e-mail tax, knowing it couldn't go anywhere.

Berkeleyside / Lance Knobel

Fox News is known for its conservative viewpoint on a variety of issues, and that includes being anti-tax. So it's no surprise that a Fox reporter, having heard tell of an e-mail tax, of all things, being proposed in the famously liberal city of Berkeley, of all places, would eagerly jump on the news.
But today's front-page Fox story, which suggests a Berkeley city councilman's offhanded comment is breathing "new life" into the idea of an Internet tax, is overblown.

The inflating “e-mail tax” story

The story started with routine coverage of a Berkeley City Council meeting by local news blog Berkeleyside. Buried in the 11th paragraph of that story, an unnamed councilperson suggests "a very tiny tax" on e-mail as a way to get additional funding for a historic downtown Post Office. 

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