Big news out of Washington, D.C., today on an issue that has a lot of people worried.
The House of Representatives voted to approve HR 3678, a 4-year extension of moratorium on taxing the Internet.
That should put the issue to bed for now, but the House also had a permanent moratorium on taxing the Internet on the table, but failed to enact it.
That leaves the door open for future meddling by politicians.
The original ban on taxing the Internet passed in 1998 and was extended twice. It was scheduled to expire on Nov. 1, 2007.
The vote to extend the ban for four more years was 405-2. You can't get more bipartisan support for a bill than that.
The Senate must now vote on the extension.
The Internet is the most revolutionary method of communication since the invention of the printing press. It is the great equalizer, offering everyday people a means to share their ideas and information with the rest of mankind.
Taxing the Internet is so un-democratic. I don't have many nice things to say about Congress, but for once, Congress got it right. If the House had moved to tax the Internet (and I'd like to know who the two clowns were who voted against the bill), the next step would have been taxing the air that we breathe.
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