[ClintonBeGone]

Alexander has vowed to challenge the bill under the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act, which bars the federal government from ordering states to do things without funding them.

Alexander is a pathetic piece of human debris. What a disgusting tax hungry scum bag.

[goldstategop]

Our politicians have a limitless appetite for our money. They need to keep their hands off the Internet.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

The bill "will force states into the red," says Raymond Scheppach, executive director of the National Governors Association.

The states shouldn't be spending too much money, and forcing the citizens' bank accounts into the red. Hands off!

[CatoRenasci]

It is interesting, and infuriating, to note the states which do tax access (Hawaii, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin) all have significant rural areas where internet access is the only access most people have to the kinds of shopping, information, cultural, and intellectual resources readily available to urban and suburban areas. These are the places where the internet really can make a difference in peoples' lives, whether for home schoolers, writers, consultants or otherwise. Where I live, in the Northeast, the internet is great, it's a convenience, but its absence would only make access to things a little more inconvenient, not make access impossible. In the nether Dakotas, for example, I would bet it would be impossible to replace the access to goods and services, not to mention information, provided by the internet without spending tens of thousands on trips to major metropolitan areas.

Shame on these states!

[G.Mason]

"But Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., a former governor, says: "This is not about taxes, and it is not about the Internet. It is about the federal government telling state and local officials what to do."

Ah hem ........so was the "war between the states", though it is now been rendered the "war against slavery".

Perhaps we can make this into something it is not also.

[TommyDale]

Alexander comes from the state that continually stops any attempts at a state income tax. Yet, buy something there and you'll pay a whopping sales tax rate. They complain about revenues, but the key is to stop spending.

[mathluv]

Being diiscussed on floor of Senate now.

[nutmeg]

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