Thanks to oddcrap who posted this in BPN for the heads up.
President Bush signed a bill that renews a ban on Internet access taxes on Friday amid praise from lawmakers and trade groups who said the measure would encourage more people to sign up for high-speed broadband service.
Bush said repeatedly on the campaign trail this year that a ban on access taxes is crucial to reach his goal of universal broadband access by 2007, enabling more Internet users to download video, music and other bandwidth-intensive content.
The ban on access taxes, in place since 1998, expired more than a year ago when congressional lawmakers could not agree whether to make it permanent or merely extend it for three years.
Backers at the time warned that Internet use could suffer if tax-happy states imposed new surcharges on the monthly fees that Internet providers.
No states or local governments imposed new Internet taxes during the year the ban was not in effect.
News source: Reuters
President Bush signed a bill that renews a ban on Internet access taxes on Friday amid praise from lawmakers and trade groups who said the measure would encourage more people to sign up for high-speed broadband service.
Bush said repeatedly on the campaign trail this year that a ban on access taxes is crucial to reach his goal of universal broadband access by 2007, enabling more Internet users to download video, music and other bandwidth-intensive content.
The ban on access taxes, in place since 1998, expired more than a year ago when congressional lawmakers could not agree whether to make it permanent or merely extend it for three years.
Backers at the time warned that Internet use could suffer if tax-happy states imposed new surcharges on the monthly fees that Internet providers.
No states or local governments imposed new Internet taxes during the year the ban was not in effect.
News source: Reuters
already posted.
Hope you will see things better next time.
Go Texas!
Kerry would have done the same. This is just political bull ****.
#2.1 Stay away from Texas if you hate it so much.
Oh wait this law was already there, you just renewed it. Well... go you.
::cellphone fr3@k here::
The death of Land Lines - http://www.2wire.com/?p=162
http://www.goyk.com/flash.asp?path=1041
However with the possible increase in more users, the federal agencies will have more work to sniff around peoples personal life's to seek out those so called terrorists who download mp3 files illegally
For instance, I worked at a Airline and they gave me and my immediate family free airline tickets. Does this mean the consumer should also get it for free?
However, *unlike* regular customers, Comcast employees can have only one digital cable box (regular customers have no limit on the number of such boxes) or one HD box (Comcast's HD boxes also pick up non-HD digital cable, so this actually makes sense). Further, they also give permission for their accounts to be used for training purposes (in my case, I used my own account as part of a minicourse I was asked to teach new employees on Comcast's billing system).
So there are both bennies and tradeoffs to working for a service company.
He's definitely going for a change of pace with that red tie instead of his bright blue one, though.
Same thing
are u from jesusland?
-stumps over the floor-
hey i'm not an antiamerican
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And, by the way, you think he CARES? Hahahahaha!!!! Jesus, someone is in the biggest naive and denial phase of their life right now. Hahahaha!!!!!!!
He just lost, is all.
Liberalism is A Mental Disorder.
The Interent should not be taxed by any goverments becuase it does not belong to them
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/still waiting for the air tax
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He is a public official and it's his job to act in accordance to public demand.
His signing of the tax ban for another period doesn't make him a hero
any more than we are heroes for doing what we were hired to do.
George Bush is not a hero in any sense of the word. On the contrary,
he is nothing but a self serving politician and should be treated with
the disdain that goes with that position.
Ban isnt permanent, only for another 3 years. Article also mentions a push to get more people using broadband between now and 2007. Then, once everyones got it, the ban expires, and BAM! Internet tax which hits everyone, rather than doing it now when it would only hit a portion of the people. Its so sneaky! makes him look like he's doing something good, when all he's doing is sucking people in to charge them more later. Bollocks I say.
Not that I complain, though... I'm buying some x-mas presents on Amazon.com. I mean, the dollar is dirt cheap right now!
Bush has to be the funniest figure I've ever seen. He's gone into no-tax mode, but any idiot can see that we need taxes. Bush has been one of the biggest spenders of federal funds (which, I might add, goes against the typical Republican platform).
Americans complaingin about taxes ... yet they generally get paid better and have FAR less taxes than any of us Europeans...
but at least we don't have to have a insurance policy for every little thing in our lives though
because we work harder and are smarter
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