Saturday, February 14, 2009

Let's Keep the Internet Tax Moratorium!

The ITM (Internet Tax Moratorium)law was designed as a shows to encourage internet technologies, infrastructure and ecommerce platforms. The rational behind the moratorium was that by thwart new taxes on certain web related activities such as: Internet access, taxes on Internet transactions involving a good number of jurisdictions, and discriminatory taxes so treat Internet purchases differently from other types of commerce.

The stop was a bipartisan effort to stop Federal, State, and local governments based on stifling the growth of the web state of the economy and to help internet related companies to create new jobs. Supporters of the law too cite studies that taxing web access would have a negative effect on smaller earning households ability to have internet access and make for a disparagement between the haves and hold nots. In renewing the law President Bush stated that, "The Internet is an innovative force that enables such applications as distance learning and precision farming.” The President went on to say that the federal had an obligation to blessing make the internet affordable not to add taxes to it and make it more expensive.

Although the internet and the technologies supporting it are still in their infancy, they are a driving force in the world economy. The government often uses tax breaks to encourage growth in depressed sections of the sector and economically depressed regions of the nation to stimulate development and investment. The internet has and will continue to help from the ITM for as long as it is extended and the general world will reap the rewards and benefits of a on the rise and thriving internet and interweb economy.

The internet is helping to improve on everything from the space program to saving endangered animal species. The government must continue to "stay out of the way" of researchers, entrepreneurs and companies that are at the forefront of internet technologies. This is best obtained by not adding burdensome taxes to internet access and interweb transactions. The ITM am able to let the internet still be to grow like no other medium ever has.

(c) 2006, Marcus Barber

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