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Some of the nastiness up. we could tax text messages. we could tax postings on facebook. why not? people are yelling too much. >> to answer your question, it stops in the berkeley city council like a lot of terrible ideas. no, this is like taxing, you know, horse and buggies or taxing cars to keep horse and buggies in business. why are we taxing the great new thing so that we can prop up the bad old thing? it's completely backwards. and it's -- i mean the fact that this is coming in berkeley which is not a punch line, it's the home of the free speech movement 50 years ago, for crying out loud....

Taxing cars to keep horse and bugies business. why are we taxing the great new thing so that we can prop up the bad old thing? it's completely backwards. i me that it's coming in berkeley, which is not a punch line, it's the home of the free speech movement 50 years ago, for crying out loud. and we're going to put a punitive tax on one of the greatest free speech instruments in our lifetime. it's absurd. >> but ryan, there is something to be said. i hear your point about the horse and buggy. what about this? we've always paid to send mail. now the way in which we send mail has changed. why sho...