Hungary’s government looks at taxing internet downloads

Not necessarily (It depends on the amount of tax). But really it's stupid. They should only be getting tax via normal VAT of a service being sold.

At the minute ordinary users subsidise the heavy users of Internet by over 50%. Eventually there will have to be a fixed charge and then maybe 5% of that for each 100Gbyte a month. Then no separate tax is needed as the regular VAT covers it.

Watching a few hours of netflix a day would be more expensive than the internet bill itself.

You must watch a LOT of Netflix or have a very low Broadband bill. But €50 for 80Gbyte sounds far too expensive. I wonder is it $0.062 or 0.62 cents? At 0.62c you'd get 800Gbyte for €5 extra.

It's a stupid way to do it, no matter the rate.

However they often float unpopular ideas to distract people and then "give in" and ditch them.

Nearly 60 years ago Tanks would arrive if you voiced your opinion.

Here very many stupid things are done with no consultation and ignoring any dissent, so Hungarians may not have worse democracy than here.

USA many things are decided by the Corporations.