Nobody really likes to pay taxes. But suppose there were a tax that was used to provide cybersecurity protection. How much would you be willing to pay to be protected? Would you pay 5 percent? Maybe 10 percent? What about 30 percent: would you pay $1.30 for an item if $0.30 went towards cybersecurity protection? And what if you didn’st want the protection? Could you opt out and just pay $1.00? Some individuals are advocating that there should be a cybersecurity tax that is mandated by governments with all of the money being pooled together and then used to supply citizens with strong cybersecurity defenses, instead of asking users to find their own defenses and purchase them. Would a cybersecurity tax work?

Nobody really likes to pay taxes. But suppose there were a tax that was used to provide cybersecurity protection. How much would you be willing to pay to be protected? Would you pay 5 percent? Maybe 10 percent? What about 30 percent: would you pay $1.30 for an item if $0.30 went towards cybersecurity protection? And what if you didn’st want the protection? Could you opt out and just pay $1.00? Some individuals are advocating that there should be a cybersecurity tax that is mandated by governments with all of the money being pooled together and then used to supply citizens with strong cybersecurity defenses, instead of asking users to find their own defenses and purchase them. Would a cybersecurity tax work?