Ole Pecoz urges each of you to support Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), John Sununu (R-N.H.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) in their drive to enact a permanent ban on Internet taxes. You know your elected folks at the State and Local levels are plumb droolin' to impose taxes on your Internet communications... It's too deep a well not to dip their wicks in!!!
Last week, the House passed a bill that would extend the existing moratorium on Internet taxes until 2011, and the Senate is scheduled to take up legislation this week. Sens. McCain, Sununu, and Wyden are pushing Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to allow a vote on making the ban on Internet taxes permanent. This is a vote that deserves to go forward.
Congress wisely decided some years ago that Internet access and commerce should not be encumbered with multiple state and local taxes. Due in no small part to this decision, the Internet and e-commerce have thrived. Today, approximately 70 percent of the U.S. population uses the Internet, and it has become a vital engine for economic growth.
While extending the Internet tax moratorium is better than letting it lapse, it leaves the door open for eventual taxation and creates a climate of uncertainty for individuals and businesses that rely on the Internet. Enacting a permanent ban will provide much-needed consumer and business confidence and help keep our economy robust and strong.
I urge you to support any effort to make the Internet tax ban permanent. But when you call your Senators -- mention S-156 in particular -- that bill makes the moratorium permanent so we ain't got to go through this every four years!
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