GENERAL BACKGROUND
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Stop Satellite TV Taxes in Your State!
State legislators are trying to slap new taxes on your family and the hundreds of thousands of other families in your state simply for choosing satellite TV because of its superior quality, programming, customer service, and lower rates. These taxes have been rejected in 19 states because satellite TV customers, like you, took action against these discriminatory taxes.
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This is the Worst Time to Impose a New TV Tax on Your Family and Local Businesses!
The budgets of hard working families and businesses are already stretched to their limits in the midst of the greatest recession in 70 years. A new satellite TV tax is one that already stressed businesses and families, like yours, cannot afford. Families are struggling to find ways to pay bills and are cutting back on dinners out with the family, going out to the movies, and shopping at the mall, but they can still go home to rely on their TV for affordable entertainment.
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Satellite TV Taxes are Anti-Competitive & Unfair!
New taxes imposed only on satellite TV tilt the playing field in favor of cable companies and stifle competition in the pay TV market. When that happens, service gets worse and prices go up for you and all customers, just like those days when cable companies were the only game in town. To make matters worse, the proposed taxes unfairly punish families living in rural and lower income parts of the country where only satellite TV chooses to go, as well as the many families who depend on foreign language programming offered only by satellite TV. - Update: NY State legislature proposing to tax satellite TV
- Satellite television subscribers could see their bills go up this year.
- An Open Letter to the New York Legislature: Oppose Taxes on Satellite TV Subscribers!
- Satellite TV subscribers could see increased costs in 2013
- Satellite TV Companies Resist New Proposed Tax
- No To Yet Another Illinois Tax, Rep. Rich Morthland Says
- WCMY 1430 AM – Satellite TV Tax
- Cable TV, satellite TV industries embroiled in fight over fees
- Editorial: Illinois Satellite TV Tax Should Burn Up Illinois House Atmosphere
- WCIA-TV Sat Tax News Story
- Editorial: Find an equitable tax on video service
- Our View: Illinois legislators should reject satellite TV tax as unfair
- Our Opinion: Pressing issues for lawmakers this veto session (The House should kill the bill)
- Letter: Oppose satellite tax
- National Taxpayers' Union: An Open Letter to the Illinois General Assembly
- Satellite TV Companies Say Illinois Tax Plan Would Raise Customers' Bills
- National Taxpayers' Union Letter Opposing TV Tax Hike
- It Came From Outer Space - Billy Hamilton, State Tax Notes
- Savannah Morning News Editorial
- MA Boston Herald Editorial
- Worcester Telegram Legislature Should Nix Unneeded Tax
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