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Ron Wyden: “I will be very brief, I say to the chairman and colleagues. The hour is late. All we seek to do is to have technological…”

On the recordOctober 7, 1998
I will be very brief, I say to the chairman and colleagues. The hour is late. All we seek to do is to have technological neutrality. We are not going to tax catalogs. We also don't want to tax web sites. That is all this is about--preventing that kind of discriminatory tax.
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

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Discussing the importance of technological neutrality in tax legislation.

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