Word: taxingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Russians copied from the Czechs all they could to free themselves of the worst tyranny ever known to man. When I asked Gorbachev's former top economic adviser, Stanislav Shatalin, why Russia did not just carbon-copy all the Czech commercial and tax codes, instead of endlessly debating how to reinvent the wheel, he replied, "Because the Czechs solve their differences in a bar over a beer, while we use knives...
...FRANCISCO: The governors were at the Internet gates this week, trying to sink their tax fangs into the smooth young neck of online commerce. And who should bar the door but President Clinton, who with a single speech ended months of hedging and called for passage this year of the Internet Tax Freedom Act, which would impose a moratorium of up to five years on new taxes on electronic commerce and the Internet...
...knows like the Internet crowd that the Big G is not to be trusted. "Governments will always find a way to tax the Net," says McCullagh, who points out a recent Clinton-Gore project: the $2.25 billion library-and-school universal service fund, which was paid for with surcharges on extra home-phone lines -- traditionally used for Internet hookup. "Despite what Clinton wants you to hear," he says, "that's hardly deregulatory...
About 17 years ago, Allston failed to pass a tax increase and lost its library...
...Clinton has long suggested the Net be a free-trade zone -- but this is the first time he has needed to fight for his policy. The fledgling e-commerce industry faces a major threat from state governors, whose national association voted Tuesday in favor of local Internet taxes. That would put cybercash transactions at risk from 30,000 separate tax jurisdictions in the U.S. alone, and likely injure -- if not trample on -- the green shoots of Net trade...