“I have a specific position on that issue, but I do not want to see internet only taxes as you described them or access fees or email charges and so forth. “
No, I don’t think he changed his mind. The statement above has room in it for state-based sales taxes of net transactions, he just didn’t bring it up.
Plus, if he calls it a “transaction fee to support commiunications infrastructure”, it’s not a tax at all.
MA: It seems like along general party lines the Republicans wanted a permanent ban and Democrats wanted something less than that and they compromised on 7 years. Do you have any particular position on whether the ban should be permanent?
MR: Well I think it makes more sense to make it permanent.
People hear what they want.
To you it sounds as if he has left wiggle room to impose a tax. To me it sounds like he is against the internet tax and wants it to be permanently banned.