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

From: Declan McCullagh (declan@private)
Date: Tue Mar 02 2004 - 05:45:52 PST

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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@private>
    To: declan@private
    
    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@private
    The Institute for Policy Innovation is a non-partisan, public policy
    organization.
    
    
    
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