Congress was gracious enough to extend the moratorium on internet access taxes. That means that your high speed internet or dialup bill will remain free of excise taxes and fees; for the time being.

But some lawmakers are crying foul over their inability to seize more of your hard earned dollars.

...some lawmakers said it would require states to raise taxes in other areas to make up for the millions of dollars they would lose as telephone and other services migrate to the Internet.

Such is the typical government response. If you shift your spending from a high tax area to a low tax area, the government is losing money.

Anti-tax lawmakers wanted the tax ban to be permanent, but they were unable to get support and had to settle for a three-year moratorium.

North Carolina Democratic Rep. Mel Watt said he would help Sensenbrenner make the ban permanent in the next session if the Republican would allow states to tax online sales.

Geez, Democrats like Watt never met a tax they didn't like. I bet he'd gladly give up the monthly access fee in exchange for being able to extend their tax arm across state lines to start taxing interstate commerce.