>
> >(Wall Street Journal 11 Sep 98)
> >WHITE HOUSE MULLS NEW INTERNET TAX PROPOSAL
> >Ira Magaziner, President Clinton's senior Internet advisor, has proposed a
> >new plan for tracking and taxing goods sold over the Internet that would use
> >electronic "resident cards" and private-sector escrow agents around the
> >world. Consumers would obtain digital cash at banks that would allow
> >merchants to identify which country the buyer is in, but would reveal no
I think Clinton is not going to be internet friendly after this! It
is the internet that has catapulted him to his pariah status. Since
Friday, Starr Report has been at the very top of all the search engines
almost every hour of the day, at levels reaching as high as six times the
usual peak for other surges that I have seen. (Friday's per hour stats at
http://www.mall-net.com/se_report/top324.html )
Congressional computers are jammed, and some web servers, such as the
ones for some elected representatives pages, just don't respond during
the daytime anymore. (But seem ok in the wee hours of the night.) I have
had e-mail sent to my representative bounce. And from what I see, the
entire House web site system is a Byzantine thing designed to keep you
from finding out what your representatives e-mail address is, and to keep
you from e-mailing them.
If anything, this is going to each Congress that The Net is
important. I just hope they eventually reflect upon what happened, and
realize that The Web is more valuable an asset than the national postal
system, or perhaps the national highway system. If they do, they might be
half right. I would say it is now MORE important than the national
telephone system!
As to many who go asking for the Starr Report on the search engines,
they get the Foster suicide information and critiques, at least as of
when I checked on Saturday.
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