Election Lesson Not Learned: Lame Duck Democrats Rush to Tax the Web
What? Should the Blue Be
Dictating Tax
Increases? NO!
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For everyone except Democrats.
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(T)he House…passed - by mega-bipartisan voice vote acclimation - the Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act (PITFA). (Which ends forever governments’ ability to tax Internet access - the current moratorium expires December 11.)
“(T)he law has attracted large bipartisan majorities every time it’s been up for a vote in either house. That’s because the law has allowed the Internet to grow into an engine of interstate and international commerce.”
Except Senator Reid won’t allow the bill up for a vote in his Senate. Unless he can tether it to a whole new Internet tax scheme….
“A new Senate bill may force lawmakers this week to make a tough choice on internet taxes: they must agree to expand the reach of sales taxes on out-of-state retailers, or else see the end of a law that forbids states and cities from imposing a tax on internet access.
“…Instead of putting (PITFA) to the Senate, however, Reid has decided to attach it to a proposed law called the Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA). That bill, which first passed the Senate last year, would require online retailers to collect tax on sales they make to out-of-state consumers.”
Get that? Under the MFA, uber-tax-happy states like California would no longer be confined to taxing into oblivion just Californians. They’d have access to the wallets of every business - every person - in all fifty states.
Turning Huge Government states into additional Huge Government federals. And tempting Less-Huge-Government states to grow - with the siren song of new coin taken from people in forty-nine states that can’t vote against them.
So too does the Obama Administration.
(Federal Communications Commission) FCC Chairman Wheeler is contemplating…Title II Internet Reclassification. Which is a huge new regulatory monstrosity. And…surprise:
“…(O)nce ‘internet access services’ are reclassified as ‘interstate telecommunications services’ under the exclusive authority of FCC, it will be subjected to the 16.1% fee that’s currently applicable to such services.
“So FCC’s ‘Net Neutrality’ could result into the largest single tax increase on internet to date.”
And that huge tax rate goes up every quarter – automatically.
I believe the FCC should reclassify consumer broadband service under Title II of the Telecommunications Act….Real journalist Major Garrett - now of CBS News and National Journal - made this excellent point after the last huge Republican wave election - in 2010:
“Don’t expect Republicans to raise taxes when (they) own the House of Representatives and have six more Senate seats. As a matter of politics that doesn’t work.”
They should be asked to raise taxes now?
Remember when President Obama said “Elections have consequences?”
Remember when Senator Reid said “Elections have consequences?”
Remember when Democrat (Socialist) Senator Bernie Sanders said “Elections have consequences?”
Remember when Leftist “journalists” Rachel Maddow and Ezra Klein said “Elections have consequences?”
They apparently do not.
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3 Comments:
Politicians NEVER met a tax they didn't like. The House is controlled by the republicans so it can't pass right? ROFL of course it can and probably will.
Instead of the Democrats "hearing the message" the voters sent them on November 4th they are retaliating against WE THE PEOPLE by attempting to tax the web.
This is the Democrats versus the American people. The Democratic Party is the DOMESTIC ENEMIES of the American people.
The voters made the right call on November 4th.
Get ready for the NEW Tax on the Internet. Nothing left unturned before December. How many businesses will be adversely affected?
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