http://mcguireslaw.com/2006/05/13/are-you-still-funding-the-spanish-american-war/ The value of any product or service increases with its mobility. Sun, 19 Mar 2017 02:11:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.16 http://mcguireslaw.com/2006/05/13/are-you-still-funding-the-spanish-american-war/#comment-27 Mon, 29 May 2006 12:43:15 +0000 http://mcguireslaw.com/?p=73#comment-27 […] As reported many places, this past week Treasury Secretary John Snow finally abolished the excise tax on metered telephone service that was originally put in place at the end of the 1800s to fund the Spanish-American War. As I previously noted, this is just one of many taxes placed on “telecommunications services” that threaten the promise of the power available if mobility were added into every product and every process. […]

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