Bandwidth for the People

Policy Review, Oct/Nov 2004 by Crandall, Robert, Hahn, Robert, Litan, Robert, Wallsten, Scott

3 Jerry A. Hausman, Taxation by Telecommunications Regulation (American Enterprise Institute, 1998) estimates that the cost to the economy from long-distance access taxes is approximately three times higher than cost of raising the same revenues through the income tax.

4 See Austan Goolsbee, "The Value of Broadband and the Deadweight Loss of Taxing New Technology," working paper (University of Chicago, 2001).