Steve DelBianco

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Jim offers a genius compromise on the e-commerce sales tax debate. Steve DelBianco and Michael Mazerov joins Jim Blasingame to try to find some middle ground where who should collect and remit sales tax on e-commerce transactions.
Should small businesses be required to collect and remit tax on Internet sales? Steve DelBianco joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the #1 offender on the Fall 2011 iAWFUL list, a new Internet sales tax bill.
How do we prevent politicians from ruining the Internet? Steve DelBianco joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the Fall 2011 iAWFUL, which points out ten of the most egregious examples of political meddling with the Internet.
What do we do when the government commits anti-trust practices? Steve DelBianco joins Jim Blasingame to compare the anti-trust impact of ObamaCare with its anti-trust fight against ATT and T-Mobile.
Why do state governments want to tax virtual sales, like catalogs and e-commerce? Steve DelBianco joins Jim Blasingame with an update on the debate on virtual sales tax reporting by businesses, which would put an “unreasonable burden on interstate commerce.”
How far are states willing to go to collect online sales tax? Steve DelBianco joins Jim Blasingame to report on the Internet sales tax case of California v Amazon and what defines a business’s presence in the state for sales tax collection.
Do you think the Internet needs more top-level domains, like .com? Steve DelBianco joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the pros and cons of ICANNs proposal to grow the Internet through bids on new top-level domains.
The new .XXX top level domain is now available? Steve DelBianco joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the new top level domain, .xxx and why there were protesters on both sides of the adult content debate.
Exposing laws that are IAWFUL? Steve DelBianco joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how his IAWFUL project exposes laws like the "Do Not Track" bill that hinders the e-commerce business model.
IAWFUL exposes another awful law. Steve DelBianco joins Jim Blasingame to expose another IAWFUL law, this one is a California bill to make it illegal for social networking sites to show addresses/numbers of 17 year-olds on their own sites.