http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/business/article/0,1406,KNS_376_2390408,00.html Congresswoman goes on offensive over fear of e-mail tax By RICHARD POWELSON, powelsonr@private October 31, 2003 WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., warned Thursday that governments might start taxing every e-mail transmission if Congress does not quickly renew a federal ban on Internet-access taxes expiring Saturday. [...] Blackburn's warning came in a written statement sent to newspapers for publication as an op-ed piece, and she reiterated it in a subsequent interview. Blackburn said she was concerned that if Congress does not renew the ban on Internet access taxes, local areas could tax an e-mail each time it passed from one computer server to another. She urged the Senate to quickly pass the House-passed ban on Internet access taxes. "We can chuckle about (an e-mail tax) now, but we won't be laughing if America's thousands of taxing jurisdictions actually start taxing e-mail," Blackburn said. "And that is exactly what could happen if we do not extend this moratorium by Friday night." [...] _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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