HERE COMES BROADBAND JOHN

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 16:39:09 -0700
From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>

HERE COMES BROADBAND JOHN

He's no Al Gore, but he cana speaka the geek. Sen John Kerry (D-MA) has a
history of promoting tech-friendly policies in the Senate and working to
bring high-speed data lines to rural Massachusetts. He was one of the first
lawmakers to back the industry on issues such as Internet taxation, has
long championed a permanent R&D tax credit, more federal funding for
research, and a zero capital-gains tax when investors hold stock in
startups for four years or longer. Expected soon from the likely nominee
for President is a speech proposing a national broadband strategy to
promote high-speed Internet connections, tax breaks for investments in
startups, and more federal dollars for research that can foster lucrative
commercial spin-offs. Sen Kerry wants to leverage small federal investments
into a big economic impact. He's counting on technology industry to create
1 million of the 10 million new jobs he claims his economic policies will
create. The proposal will probably include tax credits for companies that
deploy next-generation speeds, freeing up more airwaves for new wireless
technologies to compete with cable and phone companies, a high-speed
network to connect health-care organizations, a broadband version of the
E-rate, and possible tax breaks and the creation of rural cooperatives to
deliver affordable broadband to rural areas. There's more -- including the
potential political gains of these proposals -- at the URL below.

[SOURCE: BusinessWeek, AUTHOR: Catherine Yang]
<http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_16/b3879111.htm>

See Also:

PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS DIVIDE SILICON VALLEY
See which candidates various IT executives are supporting.
[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: Laurie Flynn]
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/12/technology/12give.html>


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