“By the way CSE is a great group. Not only here in Washington State but they are national as well. In Washington D.C. they are very active on Capitol Hill and many lawmakers rely on CSE’s position papers.” --Congressman Doc Hastings

Last month, the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) released the results of a Wirthlin Worldwide survey on Americans’ viewpoints about Internet taxation. According to Wirthlin, “Americans support collecting existing state and local sales taxes on Internet purchases.” This should be no surprise because existing state and local sales taxes already apply to the Internet and electronic commerce.

Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE) is hundreds of thousands of volunteer activists working for less government and lower taxes. For the past 15 years, CSE and our educational affiliate, CSE Foundation, have identified, educated, and activated citizens who are passionate about showing up to support free enterprise and limited government. CSE’s Civil Justice Reform Campaign was conceived in 1998 with the notion that our civil justice system is simply not working, and that trial lawyers are robbing decent, honest Americans of their money, trust, freedom, and peace of mind.

(Houston, Texas) On June 17th and June 18th, 9,000 Texan delegates convened to determine their Year 2000 Platform. Texas CSE was there to inject our key economic issues into the platform – and we did!

Tonight, Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation will host a Social Security Reform Town Hall Meeting featuring Sen. Rod Grams, retirement security expert Jose Piñera, and Scott Hodge, CSE Director of Tax and Budget Policy. The event will take place at 6 p.m., July 6 at the Hilton Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport. This free event is open to the public and will be moderated by Minneapolis talk show host Jason Lewis with a simulcast on KSTP radio 1500 AM.

The stock symbols (BEL), (GTE), and (USW) disappeared from existence on Monday as the Bell Atlantic-GTE and Qwest-US West mergers were finalized. The mergers give hope that section 271 of the 1996 Telecommunications Act will meet a similar fate soon.