WASHINGTON (AP) — State and local governments would be permanently barred from taxing access to the Internet under a bipartisan compromise the Senate began pushing on Thursday toward congressional app
Congress Moves Near Final Ok Of Local Internet Tax Ban
By ALAN FRAM, Waco Tribune-Herald
Thu, 02/11/2016 - 9:28am
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