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U.S. Representative John Campbell (R-Calif.) is my new hero...
Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 9:59 pm
by FlyingPenguin
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1 ... 458,00.asp
U.S. Representative John Campbell (R-Calif.) introduced on Friday legislation to permanently protect Internet commerce from discriminatory taxes and disallow taxation on Internet use...
... "We don't want to retard the growth or use of the Internet by having states or localities tax it," said Campbell. "So, if the state of California decided 'we're going to put a tax on shoes sold on the Internet because there are lots of shoes being sold and we want to make money off of that,' this prohibits that from happening..."
Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:07 pm
by nexus_7
Wow, and he is from CA. Then again that is what the whole republican party is suposed to be about.
Way to go chief!
Greg
Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:10 pm
by Executioner
Ditto. How come that kind of thinking is not present in the Bush administration?
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 3:19 am
by TheSovereign
psuedo republicans.... all the real republicans are libertarian now
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:59 am
by Executioner
Originally posted by TheSovereign
psuedo republicans.... all the real republicans are libertarian now
Haha - maybe that is why I've been interested in changing parties.
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 1:26 pm
by Trianon
Originally posted by Executioner
Haha - maybe that is why I've been interested in changing parties.
Fiscal conservativism is a principle unknown to Shrub admin. Did you see the ruckus about need to elevate borrowing bracket up another ~800 billion dollars or US will defolt on it's foreign debt? Only 2 weeks to wait till Sh#t will hit the fan...