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Finally the American public has found a safe haven from the receiving end of taxation, and someone is out there plotting and scheming to figure out how to milk this cash cow called the internet. Yes, the vultures are circling and plotting how to get ahold of the money through this wonderful world where small businesses operate, friends and family connect, and one is able to earn even a few extra dollars for voicing an opinion. When will this madness end.

The internet represents the one big playground for everyone to enjoy and utilize without feeling invaded by the tax man. It seems like we're always being taxed for one thing or another. We're taxed on our purchases of goods, income, and property to name a few. We pay taxes to fix our highways, support our libraries and educational institutions, and pay the salaries of some of the very people who'd love to get ahold of some revenue through the users of the internet.

And what about those wonderful projects we hear about that our stoic politicians think must be accomplished with tax revenue? According to FoxNews.com Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles Schumer would like to have $1 million in taxpayer funds to erect a Hippie Museum in New York state. Of course they would. Why not?

Furthermore, the department of revenue in Iowa has decided to tax the sale of Jack 'o lanterns in their state. The mighty fine pumpkins are finally considered to be used primarily for decoration rather than food consumption so it was deemed a great source of revenue according to news at www.Yahoonews.com.

In my own home state of Michigan I am embarrassed to report that while my state government almost closed its doors for business recently, back in April of 2006 the state politicians wanted to give every student in Michigan an IPOD. How would that be funded? With the already strained Michiganders' tax money according to www.news.com

Someone please tell me why taxpayers shouldn't be skeptical when our politicians have their eyes fixed on the internet. Federal taxes, state taxes, business taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, even death taxes; When will it ever end?

Leave the internet alone I beg. It's that one last final frontier best left untouched. Once the flood gates of taxation are opened in this land, there will be no turning back.

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