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Digital TV Converter Coupons From Uncle Sam Available Now, Old People Rejoice

Old people love coupons, especially ones worth 40 bucks, which buys a lot of Metamucil. They're also the people most likely to need digital converter boxes for analog sets to receive digital over-the-air broadcasts after Feb. 2009. So I'm happy to report that your gramps you can pick up his $40 coupon for the box here. Or you could just take him down to Best Buy to get a new TV and forego this silliness. [Detroit Free Press]

4:40 PM on Wed Jan 2 2008
By matt buchanan
8,325 views, 16 comments

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Senate Passes Seven-Year Extension of Net Access Tax Ban

Showing the House who's in the lower chamber of the bicameral setup, the Senate passed a seven-year extension on the net tax ban, three years longer than the four-year ban that passed the House. Better deal for us, right? Well, since they didn't match up exactly, they'll have to work together to hammer out the differences, hopefully before the current moratorium goes rotten on Nov. 1. Republicans continued to advocate for a permanent ban, but apparently Dems blocked a vote on it. Boooo taxes. [Yahoo!/Reuters]

11:40 AM on Fri Oct 26 2007
By Matt Buchanan
1,377 views, 23 comments

Latest by johnnyabnormal: @ideaman2020: I think the "childrens" in America were recently vetoed too. more »

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House Judiciary Votes to Extend Ban on Net Access Tax by Four More Years

The ban on taxing your intertube access is set to drop dead next month, but signs are looking decent it's taxation you won't have to worry about for at least another few years—the House Judiciary Committee voted 38 to zip passing an amendment to the Internet Tax Freedom Act that stretches the tax-freeness out another four years. More »

7:20 PM on Thu Oct 11 2007
By Matt Buchanan
1,709 views, 1 comment