Comments on: Democrats fail (at least for now) to protect Net users from taxes

Democrats have had since January to schedule a vote on a bill that would protect Internet users from access taxes. They still haven't done so, and a temporary moratorium expires in just a few weeks.

[billmosby]

Let me get this straight...

You're wondering why Democrats aren't rushing to prevent a
certain class of taxes from being created. Democrats!

[Leria]

Wrong party

If you are thinking that the Democrats are the ones who 'push new taxes', think again. The only thing they do in most cases is to repass taxes that the Republicans in their great stupidity have removed in order to balance the budget.

There are VERY few times when the Democrats push for a 'new' tax, it's usually the Republicans who do that and mask it by calling it a 'fee' or 'license'.

[gsman11]

lol

couldn't have said it any better myself. i cant believe anyone would be surprised by this.

[vhac]

Da*n tax

On this issue, Democrat sucks. I sure don't want more taxes. Anyhow, Congress always want more money, especially when the war cost HUNDREDS of billions of dollar and got nothing to show for it years later. Thanks president Bush!! When you look at it, many fees, licenses increased. Many services to Americans are being cut, healthcare, school grants, soldier services, etc. All that to patch the big HOLE of spending on the war.
This will affect the spread of broadband to many people. I prefer permanent tax ban!!

[nobdoy_knose]

misleading (and partisan) headline

your headline makes it sound like the Dems are fighting to protect users from net taxes. When you look at the facts in the story though, you realize that it is DEMOCRATS who are delaying action to protect net users from taxes. Not surprising really, but certainly a pro-Dem slanted take on the issue.

[aka_tripleB]

The headline wasn't misleading

It said Democrats failed to pass a law to keep from taxing internet users and that was what the article was about. And let's not forget that most news organizations choose a politician to back for political office. That means that they usually are a partisan group.

[Neo Con]

Not so fast

Yeah, I'm not so sure about that. I kind of thought this article was rather refreshingly honest. I don't think anyone is particularly surprised that the Democrats aren't too keen on preventing new taxes, but I thought the article and the headline made it quite clear that they were the ones blocking this legislation while the Republicans are the ones trying to protect net users.

Nice article, C|Net.

[georgiarat]

No Surprise Here!

Democrats never saw a tax they did not like. They just want your
money to buy more votes through entitlements that are
bankrupting this country.

[Gringras]

Please people...

Don't be naive. Democrat or Republican does not matter. Neither
party, nor any politician gives a rat's a** about the "American
people". You have to be a lobbyist or a corporation with an open
check book to be heard by these b@stards in Washington and the
state legislatures. Once elected they forget all about regular
people. It's not politics, its just the love of money.

[menotbug]

RE: Lazy on Net Tax Ban, hasty on Illegal Wiretapping

So many were elated to have a new balance of power elected last
November, thinking some good change would be coming
around...

Today it's obvious we have a spineless group of Congressmen.
Has anyone pondered the possibility that Bush & the NSA have
been using the illegal warrantless wiretapping of the phone and
internet to gather blackmail on our Congress? Could this be why
they are so afraid to stand up to him? They are probably all dirty
anyway - how else do you get elected these days?

[tbuccelli]

not just Bush

As much as it seems like you would like to blame President Bush and the Republicans for all, it seems you have it backwards. Republicans have been the ones proposing making the tax ban permanent.

Most likely that the Democrats want to allow the allowance for taxes to go through, and they only need the honorable Senator from Hawaii to delay long enough to allow the current tax ban to expire. That way the others can state that they were against it all along (sure, right), it's just they did not get a chance to vote on it. They will then try and blame the Republicans for that somehow I am sure.

I am not saying the Republicans are better, just that each group wants more to blame the other than to actually do something to help the people, and the Democrats are the ones that control the show in both houses at the moment.