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Senator Warns of Email Tax This Fall
cnet-declan writes "State and local governments in Washington this week began an all-out lobbying push for the power to tax the Internet, according to our article at News.com. A new Senate bill would usher in Internet sales taxes, and the Federation of Tax Administrators (representing state tax collectors) advised senators at a hearing on Wednesday not to renew a temporary moratorium limiting broadband taxes that expires in November. One irked Republican senator warned that unless the moratorium is renewed, we could start seeing email taxes by the end of the year. Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey blames it on the Democrats taking over, as do Yahoo and eBay lobbyists. Is this a non-hoax version of bill 602P?"
In general they lie a whole lot less. Though maybe some of the republican "lying" is just their extreme ignorance. And maybe it's just because I'm such a nice guy, but I usually give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that they're not fucking morons and that they know better and are just liars.
The Farewell Tour II
This isn't specifically directed at you (since I don't know your political position), but I find it amusing that the same Slashdot crowd that is basically made up of blind left-wing "progressives" that are all in favor of taxing the rich until they become poor are, at the same time, for some reason opposed to taxing Internet-based stuff. Why is that?