If you told me Washington almost never does anything positive, I’d have a hard time disagreeing with you. But at least the use of the word “almost” means nothing is absolute, so I’m glad to actually have some good news for you. Congress has passed, and President Obama is expected to sign, a permanent ban on the taxing of e-mail and other Internet services.
This is not a new thing because there have been a series of temporary bans enacted starting in 1998, when the Internet was still a relatively new phenomenon and people used expressions like “world wide web” and “surf the net.”