This just in to our venerable news room here...the same guy who
doesn't like bloggers (John McCain) is partially behind the legislation to
stop Internet access from being taxed. Why, I have no idea. This legislation, if passed, would ensure that Internet access will remain cheaper and therefore more accessible to the American public. The Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act would also allow a grandfather clause to provide for the 12 states that have already instituted an Internet access tax, which I call the "not stepping on the states toes" clause. How permanent is permanent here, who knows. It would just be nice to have this law passed, so keep an eye out for this law if you're into this sort of thing.
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Subscribe to commentsJamesJan 9th 2007 6:02PM
A cookie to the first reader who can point to the part of the Constitution enabling the US Congress to do this.
If you cop out and point to the Commerce Clause, you'd better be ready to defend the idea that a state taxing its own residents for a service they buy from a business that is also a resident of the same state is somehow Commerce Between The Several States.
That said, I don't think that an "internet tax" (not sure, but it sounds an awful lot like the telephone tax that the IRS just killed -- the one put in place to fund the Spanish-American war) is anything but a horrible idea, I just think it falls the to the states to decide, hopefully against it. A very wise man once said, "If you want less of something, tax it." Do we want less Internet?