Siding against additional taxes is
an easy position to take in most discussions.
One will find very few people in favor
of giving Washington more money to spend
on an unpopular war or pork projects
like bridges to sparsely populated Alaskan
islands.
Google has thrown in with the supporters
of Don't Tax Our Web, a group that opposes
duplicative, discriminatory, and hidden
taxes. Net companies like Amazon.com,
Yahoo, and eBay are also involved.
Google policy counsel Pablo Chavez
said on the company's Public Policy
blog that the current moratorium has
helped "make the internet a universally
accessible, free, and open platform
capable of delivering a rich variety
of services to consumers."
Chavez also contended that an extension
of the moratorium on Internet access
taxes would help increase broadband
penetration across the US. We don't
agree with that exact assessment, since
we have seen a decade and $200 billion
in tax breaks pass in the telecom industry
without fulfilling the promise of true
high-speed access to households.
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