Thanks to this amendment, endorsed by governors, retailers, and the e-Fairness Coalition, we re taking positive action, rather than delaying and playing politics. Instead of merely avoiding the issue for another 5 years, Congress in the amended Internet Non-Discrimination Act laid out a road map for states, outlining how they can simplify their tax laws to resolve this problem. Until now, efforts had been unsuccessful to get Congress to vote on this crucial issue of fair and equal taxes, said Lisa Cowell, Executive Director of the e-Fairness Coalition. Thanks to Mr. Istook's efforts, a bad bill that would have been just a do-nothing moratorium now has a valuable and positive feature that must be preserved. The amendment gives Congressional approval to uniform standards and definitions which states can voluntarily adopt to assure there is no multiple taxation of the same sale, and that there is no discrimination between Internet and non-Internet sales.
Taxes are too high, especially on the federal level.
But we don't fix that problem by giving tax breaks only to politically-correct businesses, while denying them to everyone else. And you don t lower federal taxes by destroying the local taxes that pay for schools, roads, police and fire protection.