SENATOR KEEPS 1898 TAX FROM NET US Sen. George Allen has announced a bill to prevent the IRS and the Treasury Department from levying a 3 percent federal excise tax to e-mail, broadband links, or VoIP services. Congress enacted the so-called "luxury" excise tax at 1 cent a phone call back in 1898, when only a few thousand phone lines existed in the country. http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5662952.html