{"id":511,"date":"2007-10-26T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T17:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/?p=511"},"modified":"2007-10-26T17:37:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-26T17:37:00","slug":"congress-does-something-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/26\/congress-does-something-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress does something right!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Extending the Internet Tax ban was the right thing to do! It is astonishing because Congress can&#8217;t seem to do anything right recently.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.enquirer.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20071025\/EDIT02\/710250312\/1090\/EDIT\">&#8220;With<\/a> Congress at an 11 percent approval rating, the lowest in history&#8230;..&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/mediaNews\/idUSN2635150220071026\">But here you go! <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; The Senate has approved legislation extending a moratorium on state Internet access taxes for seven years.<\/p>\n<p>With only days left before the Internet tax ban was set to expire, the Senate reached a compromise between lawmakers who proposed a shorter extension and those who insisted it should be made permanent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By keeping the Internet tax-free and affordable, Congress can encourage Internet use for distance learning, telemedicine, commerce and other important services,&#8221; Sen. Ted Stevens, of Alaska, said in a statement on Thursday night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now if they can just lower business taxes and reduce bureaucratic  red tape&#8230;  I can dream can&#8217;t I ?<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/11084229-3398925849063991487?l=zerowait.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extending the Internet Tax ban was the right thing to do! It is astonishing because Congress can&#8217;t seem to do anything right recently. &#8220;With Congress at an 11 percent approval rating, the lowest in history&#8230;..&#8221; But here you go! &#8220;WASHINGTON &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/26\/congress-does-something-right\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}