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"Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS" |
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29 May 2007 11:08:43 AM |
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NYT - Internet taxes are on the way |
http://tinyurl.com/2mhmap
May 25, 2007
Week in review: The taxman cometh back
Steven Musil, for News.com
If you once scoffed at those e-mails warning of an e-mail tax, brace
yourself: you may soon be paying a lot more to use the Internet.
The era of tax-free e-mail, Internet shopping and broadband connections
could end this fall, if recent proposals in the U.S. Congress prove
successful. State and local governments this week resumed a push to
lobby Congress for far-reaching changes on two different fronts: gaining
the ability to impose sales taxes on Net shopping, and being able to
levy new monthly taxes on DSL and other Internet-service connections.
One senator is even predicting taxes on e-mail.
Pro-tax advocates this week advanced a flurry of proposals pushing in
that direction. A bill was introduced that would usher in mandatory
sales tax collection for Internet purchases. Then, during a House of
Representatives hearing the same day, politicians weighed whether to let
a temporary ban on Net access taxes lapse when it expires on November 1.
A House backer of another pro-sales tax bill said to expect a final
version by July.
The response to the moves in CNET News.com's TalkBack forum was
overwhelmingly negative, mostly along antitax convictions. However, some
readers took a bigger-picture approach to the situation.
"Half the reason the Internet has become so successful is because the
government has had little involvement."
-- CNET News.com reader
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| Title: Re: NYT - Internet taxes are on the way |
29 May 2007 11:17:24 AM |
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Don't bet on a taxed Internet. Too many major businesses have the
deep pockets for lobbying against it - and they all each have HUGE
constituencies to mobilize for millions of people doing grassroots
pestering of congresscritters to keep the Internet tax-free. Can you
imagine how many people eBay and Amazon alone could mobilize to pester
congresscritters?
No $4 to park! No $6 admission! http://www.INTERNET-GUN-SHOW.com
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| User: "Jerry Kraus" |
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| Title: Re: NYT - Internet taxes are on the way |
29 May 2007 11:32:17 AM |
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On May 29, 11:08 am, Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS
<xeton2...@yahoo.com> wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/2mhmap
"Half the reason the Internet has become so successful is because the
government has had little involvement."
-- CNET News.com reader
I love this observation. Only it's more like 90% of the reason. And
it's precisely because of government involvement that nuclear power
and the space program are such a mess!
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| User: "Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS" |
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| Title: Re: NYT - Internet taxes are on the way |
29 May 2007 10:14:05 PM |
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Jerry Kraus wrote:
On May 29, 11:08 am, Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS
<xeton2...@yahoo.com> wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/2mhmap
"Half the reason the Internet has become so successful is because the
government has had little involvement."
-- CNET News.com reader
I love this observation. Only it's more like 90% of the reason. And
it's precisely because of government involvement that nuclear power
and the space program are such a mess!
And the govt will do even more damage to the internet since they WANT to
destroy it.
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