Bush calls for tax moratorium on broadband

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MINNEAPOLIS -- Tying high-tech innovation to prosperity, President Bush made a campaign stop in a swing state to address an election-year vulnerability: a sluggish job market that hasn't rebounded with the national economy.

In a speech today in Minnesota, Bush urged Congress to slap a permanent ban on taxes consumers pay for high-speed Internet hookups called broadband. He also touted proposals to make electronic medical records the norm and move hydrogen fuel technology from the lab to the showroom.

"There are jobs being created during this period of economic transition," Bush told about 2,000 community college, business and other leaders attending the American Association of Community Colleges annual convention in Minneapolis. "Yet, there are willing workers who don't have the skill sets necessary to fill those jobs."

After the speech, the president was headed to a $1 million Republican fund-raiser -- his fourth such event in a week -- at a private residence in Edina, a well-heeled suburb in the Twin Cities.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/politics/2531362

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. I am against taxing the Internet in any form. Also, I am against...

regulating it. It should be free to everyone.

[EV1Ltimm]

2. what's the catch?

i know the hydrogen bush intends to use is actually derived from oil, but what about "taxing broadband"?

there's ALWAYS a catch...