Election Lesson Not Learned: Lame Duck Democrats Rush to Tax the Web

intrnttx2Election 2014 was a gi-normous repudiation of the Democrat tax-and-spend go-it-alone-government-knows-best model. For everyone except Democrats. (President Barack) Obama Pledges Immigration Executive Order By End Of Year  After Rout Dems Plan Few Changes Soon-to-be-ex-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is certainly a part of the Oblivious Caucus. Harry Reids Top Man Tears Apart the White House  The tension represented something more fundamental than money - it was indicative of a wider resentment among Democrats in the Capitol of how the president was approaching the election and how they felt he was dragging them down. Of course the President was a huge part of the problem.  But for Senator Reids left-hand-man to apparently place the blame solely elsewhere is quite a good bit of wishful thinking. Harry Reid the Most Unpopular Congressional Leader  Reid Plan Backfires: How Vote Scores Are Hurting Vulnerable Senate Democrats  Hypocrite Harry: Sen. Reids PAC Out-Spending Koch Brothers in 2014 Midterms  Harry Reid: Dems Battle Against Koch Brothers Isnt Over Now we face a lame duck Congressional session.  Where some seriously terrible things could happen to We the People - foisted upon us in large part by a frustrated repudiated Nevada lawmaker.  Harry Reid Remains Obstinately Perversely Insistent on Taxing the Internet  (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 its been up for a vote in either house. Thats because the law has allowed the Internet to grow into an engine of interstate and international commerce."  Except Senator Reid wont 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.  Theyd 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 cant vote against them.  Again Senator Reids Tax-Em-All approach was just last week resoundingly defeated.  He insists on continuing to afflict us with it anyway. So too does the Obama Administration. Reclassification Net Neutrality Could Be a 16.1 Internet Tax  (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 thats currently applicable to such services.  So FCCs Net Neutrality could result into the largest single tax increase on internet to date."  And that huge tax rate goes up every quarter automatically.  What does President Obama want his FCC to do? Of course - the largest tax-increasing power grab possible. 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: You (President Obama) didnt raise taxes in a lame duck session when you had 59 Democrats in the Senate and almost 260 in the House.   Dont expect Republicans to raise taxes when (they) own the House of Representatives and have six more Senate seats.  As a matter of politics that doesnt work." After Election 2014 Republicans have at the very least a majority 226 House seats and at the very least a majority 53 Senate seats - the latter a pick up of at least eight. 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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