{"id":154,"date":"2005-04-12T11:52:11","date_gmt":"2005-04-12T15:52:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:43","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:43","slug":"senators_don_t_want_1898_tax_to_hit_net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2005\/04\/12\/senators_don_t_want_1898_tax_to_hit_net\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators don&#8217;t want 1898 tax to hit Net"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/techrepublic.com.com\/2100-22_11-5662952.html\">TechRepublic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A tax originally created to pay for the Spanish-American War may not be extended to Internet connections after all.<br \/>\nSen. George Allen on Monday announced a bill to prevent the IRS and the Treasury Department from levying a 3 percent federal excise tax to e-mail, broadband links or voice over Internet Protocol services.<br \/>\n&#8220;We didn&#8217;t win the Spanish-American War to have our own government &#8216;federales&#8217; burdening Americans with taxes on innovation over 100 years later,&#8221; said Allen, a Republican from Virginia. Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, also is backing the <a href=\"http:\/\/dw.com.com\/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politechbot.com%2Fdocs%2Fallen.spanish.american.bill.041105.pdf&amp;siteId=11&amp;oId=2100-22-5662952&amp;ontId=22&amp;lop=nl_ex\">legislation<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From TechRepublic: &#8220;A tax originally created to pay for the Spanish-American War may not be extended to Internet connections after all. Sen. George Allen on Monday announced a bill to prevent the IRS and the Treasury Department from levying a 3 percent federal excise tax to e-mail, broadband links or voice over Internet Protocol services. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-computer-news","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}