{"id":981,"date":"2007-04-18T01:08:17","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T18:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=981"},"modified":"2007-04-18T01:08:17","modified_gmt":"2007-04-17T18:08:17","slug":"ban-on-monthly-net-access-taxes-faces-obstacles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/computer\/ban-on-monthly-net-access-taxes-faces-obstacles\/","title":{"rendered":"Ban on monthly Net access taxes faces obstacles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <strong>WASHINGTON&#8211;A key U.S. senator said on Tuesday that Congress may fail to renew a temporary ban on some state and local Internet access taxes that expires on November 1.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said Tuesday that he fears that lobbyists for state and local governments and their powerful allies in Washington will stymie efforts by Internet, telecommunications companies and free-market groups to make the ban permanent&#8211;or even to renew it again.<\/p>\n<p>For more info <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Ban+on+monthly+Net+access+taxes+faces+obstacles\/2100-1034_3-6176788.html?tag=txt.alert.hed\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON&#8211;A key U.S. senator said on Tuesday that Congress may fail to renew a temporary ban on some state and local Internet access taxes that expires on November 1. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said Tuesday that he fears that lobbyists for state and local governments and their powerful allies in Washington will stymie efforts by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-government","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}