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Internet Tax Imminent?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the everybody-freak-out-like-the-last-fifty-times dept.

jhigh writes "Proposals to tax the Internet are gaining steam as state legislators see a giant pot of money just waiting to be dipped into. "At the moment, states and municipalities are frequently barred by federal law from collecting both access and sales taxes. But they're hoping that their new lobbying effort, coordinated by groups including the National Governors Association, will pay off by permitting them to collect billions of dollars in new revenue by next year.""

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  1. Re:Ron Paul is against this tax by animefanlee · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ron Paul is not a republican or a conservative even though he claims to be his kooky idea that the us government did 9/11 or caused the Muslims to attack the us make him a kooky liberal and the fact he hates Jews and has this naive theory that by abandoning Israel and our other friends in the Middle East that the Muslims will stop attacking the west Their are plenty of other conservatives that or against this fascist and socialist idea of taxing the internet which is the same as censorship as well as against other wasteful taxes