Jason Chaffetz: “I wish to speak about the Internet Tax Freedom Act. Interstate commerce has blossomed with the wires and connectivity…”

“I wish to speak about the Internet Tax Freedom Act. Interstate commerce has blossomed with the wires and connectivity that the Internet has provided us for these last couple of decades, and since 1998, the Internet Tax Freedom Act has prohibited your Internet access bill from lighting up like a Christmas tree as it has on your telephone bill. It has aided those who want to access the Internet by allowing those costs to stay down, without burdensome taxes being added on. If ever there were an invention that is truly interstate commerce, it is the Internet. We could be standing side by side and could send each other a tweet or a post on Facebook or even an email, and it could go through a whole host of States on its way, in order to get to the person who is standing right next to you. Only two people have ever voted against the Internet Tax Freedom Act, which was originally enacted in 1998, and every 4 years, we have had to renew that. Now, Chairman Bob Goodlatte is bringing this up again, so as to make this permanent, to add certainty and to keep costs low. I urge the passage of the Internet Tax Freedom Act as we address it later this week. ____________________”