(sub. req.): “I’d be more sympathetic to the no-Web-taxes crowd if not for the fact that the Internet is as much a child of the federal government as is the Social Security Administration. The Web was made possible by exactly the sort of government spending that many in the antitax crowd despise. Recall that the Internet was originally called ArpaNet, for the federal agency that funded it.”
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