Senate Passes Bill Making Internet Tax Ban Permanent (consumerist.com)

kheldan writes: Nearly two decades ago, Congress passed the first Internet Tax Freedom Act, establishing that — with a handful of grandfathered exceptions — local, state, and federal governments couldn't impose taxes on Internet access. Problem is, that law has had to be renewed over and over, each time with an expiration date. But today, the U.S. Senate finally passed a piece of legislation that would make the tax ban permanent.

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That's great

[93 Escort Wagon]

Now we get to see what the Republican-controlled House does. Surely they hate taxes too...

"Permanent"?

[mariox19]

No Congress can pass a law that a subsequent Congress can't repeal. There is no such thing as "permanent."

Re:How will the congressman from Amazon vote?

[Adriax]

Tax on the connection, not goods purchased using it.

If you let them tax the connection you'd quickly get states and cities imposing either per user taxes or a per meg tax based on 1995 average webpage size and traffic statistics.
If the ban had lapsed, you can bet the first words out of my city mayor's mouth would have been "email postage".