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Let Market Decide Internet Access Debate
Technology Op-Ed
1.28.2000
The deal between America Online (AOL) and Time Warner
should have closed the book on whether government should
enter the business of regulating high-speed Internet
access over cable lines. AOL, which had been lobbying for
access to AT&T’s cable lines, now controls America’s
second-largest cable company. But instead of recognizing
this increased competition in the broadband market, the
government is pushing rules that will result in poorer
service.
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President Clinton’s Equal Pay Initiative Will Not Expand Opportunities for Women
Press Release
1.27.2000
San Francisco, CA – Monday, President Clinton announced a $27 million Equal Pay Initiative that "mistakenly presumes unequal outcomes are due to discrimination, ignores individual choices, preferences, and personal decisions – and sets a dangerous precedent by ignoring opportunity, the cornerstone of women’s achievements in the 20th century," according to Naomi Lopez, the study’s author and director of PRI’s Center for Enterprise and Opportunity.
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Taxing Internet Sales
KQED Perspectives
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
1.11.2000
With sales over the Internet at record levels, and with the congressional moratorium on Internet taxation set to end next year, many politicians are salivating at the prospect of taxing Internet commerce. For example, Bay Area Republican Congressman Tom Campbell recently came out in favor of allowing states to impose Internet sales taxes. Such taxes, however, are unwise, unneeded and unconstitutional.
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National Council of Castro’s Friends
Business and Economics Op-Ed
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
1.10.2000
The National Council of Churches (NCC) wants to send refugee Elian Gonzalez back to Cuba. This should come as no surprise since the NCC does not represent American Protestants and has long served as a lobby for the Marxist dictatorship of Fidel Castro.
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