6-29-2022 AIP

The Internet Tax Freedom Act, H.R. 1054 and S. 442, would call time-out on taxes that discriminate against electronic commerce and the Internet. The ITFA would institute a moratorium to preclude double taxation of electronic commerce and taxation that singles out the Internet for excise-type taxes. For consumers and taxpayers, the ITFA addresses three important points.

Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE) today joins nearly 100 companies, associations and non-profit organizations to form a broad coalition called Americans for Computer Privacy (ACP). The coalition will be announced at a 1:00 p.m. press conference in room 345 of the Cannon House Office Building in Washington.

When President Clinton was first elected, both the new administration and Congress were calling for significant reforms of Superfund, a program created to clean up the nation's toxic waste dumps. "[W]e all know it doesn't work -- the Superfund has been a disaster," noted President Clinton.1 Three Congresses later, however, Superfund remains virtually untouched by reform, despite broad consensus that the program is broken and ill-suited for accomplishing its original mission.

What about the rights of the 600,000 Americans who would lose their health coverage if Clinton's health care "Bill of Rights" becomes law? Before a medical student becomes a doctor, he or she must take the Hippocratic Oath, a medical code of ethics that begins, "First, do no harm." In contrast, members of President Clinton's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry took no such oath.

"The use of ostensibly neutral federal agencies to promote the Clinton administration's pet policy agendas hit a new low yesterday," said Paul Beckner, President of Citizens for a Sound Economy.

Members of the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) may be surprised to learn what the AARP’s Washington lobbyists are trying to do to seniors’ Medicare coverage. The AARP’s 32 million members include millions of Medicare beneficiaries. Yet, the AARP is supporting a plan to drastically restrict Medicare beneficiaries’ choice of doctors.

This past September, President Clinton told a union audience he was proud of his 1994 attempt to put a government bureaucrat between every American and their doctor. He then told the audience how he intends to implement his failed health care take-over one piece at a time: "Maybe we can do it . . . a step at a time, until eventually we finish this."

As printed in USA Today, November 20, 1997 When President Clinton announced during the last campaign that the education of America’s young people was to be the priority of his second administration, he joined a train of political freight cars that has been growing impressively longer over the past 200 years but which has seldom, if ever, left the marshaling yard.