{"id":4573,"date":"2010-04-02T10:42:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T15:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4573"},"modified":"2010-04-02T12:15:02","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T17:15:02","slug":"internet-taxation-is-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4573\/internet-taxation-is-on-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Internet Taxation Is On the Way&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Washington Times <\/em>today published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2010\/apr\/02\/internet-taxation-is-on-the-way\/\" target=\"_blank\">an op-ed<\/a>\u00a0authored by Timothy Lee, CFIF&#8217;s VP of Legal and Public Affairs, on the coming Internet tax and other efforts by President Obama&#8217;s FCC to over-regulate the world wide web.<\/p>\n<p>Lee writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Obama Era has become a protracted, nightmarish Whack-A-Mole game of tax increases and bureaucratic self-enlargement. In sector after sector of American life, another scheme to expand government and wrench more earnings from Americans&#8217; pockets pops up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Its next targeted sector?\u00a0 The Internet.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the entire piece on the <em>Times&#8217; <\/em>website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2010\/apr\/02\/internet-taxation-is-on-the-way\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times today published an op-ed\u00a0authored by Timothy Lee, CFIF&#8217;s VP of Legal and Public Affairs, on the coming Internet tax and other efforts by President Obama&#8217;s FCC to over-regulate the world wide web. Lee writes: The Obama Era has become a protracted, nightmarish Whack-A-Mole game of tax increases and bureaucratic self-enlargement. In sector [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[188,308,148,71,1053],"class_list":["post-4573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-fcc","tag-internet","tag-net-neutrality","tag-taxes","tag-timothy-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4587,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573\/revisions\/4587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}