Joe Cunningham: “I strongly support a permanent ban on the tax of the Net. We need to free the Net. If we look at the Internet…”

“I strongly support a permanent ban on the tax of the Net. We need to free the Net. If we look at the Internet, e-commerce and technology today, it has stimulated the economy. There is an explosion of the stimulated economy. In the year 2000, we need not to go back to an analogue system of government or an analogue system of business. Some of my colleagues have said that jobs will be threatened in small business. Small business can join the Net just like anybody else. Many already have. And the smart ones will in the future join the Net. It will benefit them and free them from unnecessary taxes. Because I want to tell my colleagues, if we increase taxes, government at State, at local and at Federal will spend it. I absolutely guarantee they will. An increase in jobs due to the Internet actually stimulates growth and has increased tax revenue of existing taxes. The increase in production of goods produces an increase of existing taxes. But my friends on the other side of this issue want a brand new tax. Think of the bureaucracy alone that it would take to regulate this new tax. Small business will actually benefit from taking off and freeing the Net.”