Democrats fail (at least for now) to protect Net users from taxes
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Democrats have had since January to schedule a vote on a bill that would protect Internet users from access taxes. They still haven't done so, and a temporary moratorium expires in just a few weeks.
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WASHINGTON) - Lawmakers revived a long-stalled effort Wednesday to block state and local governments from taxing Internet connections, in a last-minute agreement to ban the taxes until 2007.
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Liberal online activists are finding you can't move elections with  just modems and IM
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Retirees living off Social Security are frustrated that they won't get tax rebate checks through a bipartisan economic stimulus package before the House. Senate Democrats Friday began efforts to include them.
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Democrats see a broken system, with major items out of sight. The GOP sees ideals of conservatism advancing.
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The Democratsâ growing dominance in securing contributions online is reshaping the 2008 elections.
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President George Bush on Friday signed into law a three-year moratorium on Internet access taxes. The law extends a ban on Internet taxes that expired on November 1, 2003.
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Comment is free: Polly Toynbee: Lib Dem tax proposals are a blow for sanity in an era of excess. Labour should do better than try to trash them pointlessly.
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Congress is poised to extend a ban on taxing Internet access, a move that would please Internet service providers but possibly cost states millions of dollars in lost revenue.
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Three Republican U.S. senators on Thursday called on Congress to pass a permanent Internet tax ban before a moratorium expires Nov. 1.
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At a House hearing in Washington, polticians debated whether or not to renew the ban on taxing net access. Opponents say its original purpose, to spur net usage, has long been accomplished.
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The networkâs charge for access to content over the Internet has been troubling.
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Congress wants you to save, not spend, your tax refund. So why did it lay so many traps?
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Net providers in the UK are resisting calls for them to police what customers do online.
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Congress acted Friday to block state and local governments from taxing connections that link consumers to the Internet for the next three years.
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Outpolled, outmaneuvered and out of power, Democrats are suffering an identity crisis.
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A proposal to let more lawmakers see income tax returns is going to stay alive into December, thanks to Democratic complaints over how the one-sentence provision was stuffed into a gargantuan spending bill.