Your analogy is all wrong . You ' re not paying a tax on your Internet usage when using Netflix you ' re paying a tax on your purchase of Netflix as a service . The Internet is just the method you use to gain access to the service . When you buy something in a store and pay sales tax are you paying tax on what you purchased or tax on the mode of transport you used to get to the store ? When you pay your barber to cut your hair are you paying sales tax on the service he provided ? Same applies to Netflix . <| sep |> salutes you with the pie fork <| sep |> Gimlet recently started doing fiction with a podcast called Homecoming . <| sep |> Not sure about the accuracy of it , you have to manually activate it . I use the device mostly for step and sleep tracking , haven ' t really tested it with heavy exercise yet .