Cross Posted from ConnectingWithGeorgia.com
Can you imagine paying a tax for every email you send? Should you have to pay sales tax every time you order something online? Do you want your internet bill to start looking as complicated as a phone bill or airline ticket? Apparently Congress does.
This week has seen a flurry of activity in Congress with the ultimate goal of taxing everything we do on the internet. From hearings in the House to a new Senate bill it is clear Congress wants to start taxing the internet, and that’s just wrong.
Having spent many years working for an internet company, I know first hand how many jobs and opportunities have been created and the unprecedented growth that this recent technology boom has allowed. We need to find ways to keep that success going, not to slow it down.
If you elect me to Congress I’ll be your advocate and I’ll explain to Congress that the internet is powered by the people not taxed by Uncle Sam.
Sources:
Senator Enzi’s bill
News.com article
Please contact your representatives and let them know you won't support a tax on ingenuity. And if you can, please contribute to my campaign's ActBlue page (and add $0.01 to let us know you're a Kos user).
Yours,
James Marlow