Freshman Sen. Ted Cruz, emerging as a leading voice of Capitol Hill conservatives, said Monday that it is “incomprehensible” that the Senate is close to passing a bill that would require booming Internet retailers to collect state sales taxes, warning that the move will kill jobs and hurt the economy.
Mr. Cruz, a Texas Republican and tea party favorite, called the Internet a “thriving ecosystem” that has allowed new businesses to “compete in the national marketplace in ways that would have been impossible 15 years ago, and it empowers consumer choice.”
“But tax-hungry politicians view the Internet as yet another source of revenue to bail out their big-spending governments,” Mr. Cruz wrote in an op-ed article for Real Clear Politics. “The misleadingly titled ‘Marketplace Fairness Act’ is a job-killing tax hike, plain and simple. It is, in effect, a national Internet sales tax, which would hammer the little guy and benefit giant corporations.”
Mr. Cruz also released a new Web spot that warns that the proposal would force businesses to collect taxes for 9,600 jurisdictions and politicians in jurisdictions headed by the likes of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, California Gov. Jerry Brown and New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.
“Even if they don’t represent you,” the ad says. “You will collect their taxes!”
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