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Byron Dorgan: “I am not someone who supports taxing access to the Internet. As far as I am concerned, we can extend the prohibition on…”

On the recordOctober 23, 2001
I am not someone who supports taxing access to the Internet. As far as I am concerned, we can extend the prohibition on that forever. I also do not support punitive and discriminatory taxation with respect to Internet sales. So we have no disagreement about that. But however there is a second area of difficulty.
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Byron Dorgan
Democratic · North Dakota

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Discussing the Internet tax moratorium and remote sales tax collection.

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