Fortune_Hunter - 1:57 pm on Oct 26, 2007 (gmt 0)

Standard Congressional action on this one. They will never permanently remove this tax. Congress never ever takes a tax off the table forever. They are simply doing this to fatten up the industry so when they do decide to tax everyone it will be a nice fat target to clean up on.

Interestingly, the first phone tax wasn't added until the Spanish American War. A tax was added to help pay for this war. It was just removed a few years ago and a tax credit was given to people last year who had paid it since the court had ruled the tax illegal...over a hundred years after the war was over!

I wonder what pre-text Congress will use to tax the Internet when they finally do?