When I mentioned that we, as a nation, are scurrying back into the Dark Ages, I didn’t mean for the government to pick a specific time period. Citing a telecom luxury tax created during the Spanish American war, Congress has presented the idea of a “3 percent telecommunications tax could be revised to cover ‘all data communications services to end users,’ including broadband; dial-up; fiber; cable modems; cellular; and DSL, or digital subscriber line, links.”
Crotchety, clueless people labeling our necessities as luxuries. When did our nation get so old? If they can’t stop something, they attempt to control it.
This attitude is reflected by our children (a good portion of them out of touch with the first amendment and basic American civics – see below) and in our foreign policy.
Sorry, I missed how this tax was a foreign policy issue.
I meant that the philosophy of “if you can’t control something, beat it into submission” is reflected in our foreign policy, whereby if we can’t face growing Arab resentment towards America and deal with it in an honest, open dialogue, we go over there and bomb them to bejeezus.
Same as these kids – “if we don’t understand it, to hell with it.” It’s a VERY conservative attitude.
Is it any more conservative than those of the Middle East?
“We are the enemies of democracy, and all those who promote democracy. We believe in the will of God.”