Thanks to some U.S. senators, Internet access taxes are back

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Subject: New IPI Report: Return of the Cybertax
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 16:39:45 -0500
From: Sonia Hoffman <shoffman () IPI org>
To: declan () well com

Declan:

Your readers may be interested in the following new report released by the
Institute for Policy Innovation's Center for Technology Freedom.

In “Return of the Cybertax,” IPI Visiting Scholar George Pieler explains:

"Thanks to Sen. Lamar Alexander and a group of former Governors in the
Senate, the states now have power to tax your access to the Internet. Sen.
Alexander’s blocking move prevented the Senate from extending the Internet
Tax Moratorium that has been standard public policy under both the Clinton
and Bush administrations.

By asserting state primacy over telecommunications policy and e-commerce,
Alexander and his allies are substituting their own twisted constitutional
construction for the wisdom of the Founders."


Reports are available at www.ipi.org.
For further information, please contact: Sonia Hoffman (703) 912-5742 or
shoffman () ipi org.
The Institute for Policy Innovation is a non-partisan, public policy
organization.



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