A staggering 200 billion spam mails are sent every day, clogging your mailbox and possibly slowing down your genuine mail. Time to consider taxing them and raising money for roads and bridges.
According to an estimate, more than 90 percent of all e-mails sent and 
received around the globe are spam – advertising aphrodisiacs while trying to push virus in your computer or luring you with million dollars out of a Nigerian bank provided you provide your bank account details.
North America is the world leader in the junk mail market with 40 billion of them originating in the US and Canada every day, followed by Britain at 6 billion.
North America is the world leader in the junk mail market with 40 billion of them originating in the US and Canada every day, followed by Britain at 6 billion.
While they are sent free of cost, they come at a cost to the world. They make spam filters necessary, affect productivity and add burden to the increasingly crowded bandwidth, affecting the movement of genuine mail. They also eat up the recipient’s time in deleting a score of them daily.How to stop this menace is a global problem. To this end, Internet service providers (ISPs) have proposed price mechanisms, but users have objected.
The Prospect journal has argued for a simple remedy: a very small tax on every e-mail sent.
They will spent the charged money to maintain ruits of your mail traffic & bridges.
But large number of internet users will oppose this system.If services are free then why should they pay for mail?
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