Governors Seeking Internet Tax

Declan McCullagh declan at well.com
Sun Aug 5 09:29:43 PDT 2001


At 09:15 AM 8/5/01 -0700, Steve Schear wrote:
>So, they ARE asking Congress to try and circumvent that nasty 'ol Commerce 
>Clause.  It should be interesting to see what Congress thinks it can 
>fashion th will pass SC muster.

Actually, this may be one of the few areas -- actual interstate trade and 
taxes -- that come close to the meaning of the Commerce Clause. I suspect a 
challenge will have to be made on public policy grounds rather than 
constitutional ones.

-Declan





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