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?"

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Re:Fine: Define email

[morgan_greywolf]

If you called a cab long distance, you would pay per minute for the call and be taxed on its cost, but that's not likely.

I can tell you've never lived in an area controlled by the Ameritech/SBC/The NEW AT&T/or whatever they're calling themselves these days. In one place I lived in in Michigan, it was long distance to call across the street. No, I'm not kidding.