On the recordMay 22, 2000
one of the top movies in America today is ``Gladiator,'' a story of a young upstart struggling against an outdated and cruel dictatorship. This week, the House will witness a similar struggle, Americans with phone lines versus the Internal Revenue Service. More than 252 million businesses and families use phone lines, allowing them access to telephones, faxes, computers, and cellular phones. They are beneficiaries of modern technological advances that have changed our society, and yet every time Americans use this technology, the IRS financially penalizes them with the outdated Spanish-American War phone tax. This tax was used to fund the Spanish-American War, a conflict which began and ended in 1898, 102 years ago. It is yet another case of a greedy and overbearing government using any means to tax hard-working Americans and this must end. This week, let us disconnect Americans from the Spanish-American War phone tax.
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