Talking taxes at Gizmodo

The news that the government of Finland has decided that broadband access is a universal right has received a lot of play in the blogosphere.

Naturally, Gizmodo picked up the story.  I’m mentioning this here because the comments of the Gizmodo coverage contain a lively discussion about the merits of Finland’s (and Scandinavia’s more generally) tax regime.  It gets a little inflammatory at times, but overall it’s a pretty good back and forth, and there are a lot of smart points about how hard it is to tell just exactly how much we pay in taxes because our collection system is so decentralized.