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The long-awaited Internet tax could arrive right after the November elections, a member of the Federal Communications Commission told the Heritage Foundation on Friday, thanks to the commission's "net neutrality" regulations passed last year."Thus far, all we've been told is that no decision on broadband taxes will be made until after the D.C. Circuit decides whether the FCC's regulations are legal," FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai said. "One might reasonably suspect that this decision is conveniently being put off until after the November elections."....http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/fcc-commissioner-internet-tax-to-come-after-election/article/2584344
Ted Cruz Aims to Stop Internet Sales Tax Bill Senator Ted Cruz is trying to stop a proposal already facing opposition in the House that would expand taxation of sales over the Internet.Cruz, a Texas Republican, said today it would be the “height of lunacy” for the U.S. House to support a bill giving states more power to tax after voters decided that Republicans will lead both chambers of Congress starting in January.“The last thing we should be doing is passing a massive new Internet sales tax,” he said at a news conference in Washington. He called the measure a product of lobbying by big corporations....http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2014-11-18/ted-cruz-wants-to-stop-bipartisan-internet-sales-taxation-bill
Marco Rubio Is Right - Internet Sales Tax Is A Money GrabThe Internet sales tax is a money grab by tax-hungry states that will burden small business.” Everything is a money grab by tax-hungry states. If it’s not a money grab by tax-hungry states, it’s a money grab by tax-hungry federales. At the end of the day, we’re all having our money grabbed. I just wish it felt better, don’t you? Check out today’s transcript for the rest…https://www.mikechurch.com/transcripts/marco-rubio-is-right-internet-sales-tax-is-a-money-grab/
Donald Trump on Taxes: Keeping It Flexible (no comments on Internet taxes, just vague proposals that indicate he'll change)....Unlike most Republican politicians, he has not shrunk from taking on Club for Growth, an antitax group he called “pathetic” in a recent tweet, and he has not signed the pledge circulated by Americans for Tax Reform to not raise taxes.....http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/09/04/donald-trump-on-taxes-keeping-it-flexible/
Hillary Clinton backs local taxes on Internet salesDemocratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Thursday she supported allowing cities and states to tax online purchases, but she would not mandate it.Clinton, who took questions from mayors at an event in South Carolina, said she thought it was worth experimenting with Internet sales taxes and that she would not stand in the way of jurisdictions that wanted to try it....http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-clinton-internet-idUSKCN0PX1X520150723
Is there anything a liberal can not find a way to tax?
I think about all that is left is the 'pass gas tax' and the Libs feel it would tax liberals unfairly
If only we could tax stupidity.
