Victory: U.S. Senate Joins House in Banning Taxing Internet Access

by Phil Kerpen, Contributing Author: The Senate has voted 75 to 20 to pass S.431 - Internet Tax Freedom Forever Act which permanently bans state and local governments from taxing Internet access. You collectively sent over 31,000 letters supporting the bill and I cannot thank you enough. President Obama is expected to sign it.

Of note, the same three Republicans who stalled this vote for months to hold it hostage to their desire to apply sales tax to online purchases actually voted no. They were Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, Mike Enzi of Wyoming, and Mike Rounds of South Dakota. They voted, in effect, to allow state and local governments to slap taxes on your home and mobile Internet bills that would average 12 percent. That's something zero Republicans should support.

But even with their spiteful no votes and the seventeen Democrats who also voted no, the bill passed easily. That's a big deal in a town where it's been very, very difficult to deliver any good news for taxpayers, and you helped make it possible.

By voting to permanently ban internet access taxes, Congress has ensured that Americans all around the country can have access to broadband internet without a fear of burdensome prices.
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Phil Kerpen is president of American Commitment. Follow him at (@kerpen) and on Facebook. He is a contributing author at the ARRA News Service.

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