How did Matt Miss this? Well, he is not my Congressman, but he is a leader I respect, and a Great American--John Boehner on the Internet tax Moratorium (via email):
Congressman John Boehner (R-West Chester) issued the following statement after President Bush signed into law Senate-authored legislation to extend the Internet tax moratorium for seven years:
“Maintaining this moratorium on Internet taxation will benefit American consumers and small businesses, encourage greater economic growth, and create more American jobs. I’m particularly pleased the President signed into law a seven-year ban as opposed to the weaker four-year bill pushed by House Democratic leaders. House Republicans will continue to support a permanent ban on Internet taxes – a ban which the Republican-led House advanced consistently in the past. That’s the best approach for our economy, small businesses, and American consumers, and House Republicans will continue to fight to make the ban on Internet taxation permanent.”
NOTE: The Republican Congress first banned Internet taxes in 1998. On a number of occasions over the last decade, the Republican-led House passed legislation to make the Internet tax ban permanent – efforts that were consistently stifled by the Senate. As a result, Congress was forced to pass a number of temporary extensions of the ban, most recently in 2004.
Three weeks ago, House Democrats rejected two Republican proposals to extend the moratorium by six years and by eight years, and another GOP proposal to ban Internet taxes permanently – all in favor of a flawed, four-year extension that the House eventually passed. Had the Majority embraced any one of those Republican measures, the House would not have had to follow the Senate’s lead and rushed to extend the moratorium just hours before it expired on November 1. Boehner is a co-sponsor of two bills to permanently ban Internet taxes: the Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act (H.R. 743) and the Internet Consumer Protection Act (H.R. 1077).
Boehner represents Ohio ’s 8th District, which includes all of Darke, Miami and Preble counties, most of Butler and Mercer counties, and the northeastern corner of Montgomery County . He was first elected to Congress in 1990.
