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Democrats on Energy and Commerce today voted in lockstep against an amendment from @RepBillFlores that would have prohibited Pelosi's "Save the Internet Act" from opening a backdoor to new taxes and fees on your Internet bill.
Democrats have rejected every Republican net neutrality bill. The R bills all ban the blocking and throttling Dems claim to be worried about but, unlike Pelosi's HR 1644, do not reclassify your broadband, protected by the Internet Tax Freedom Act, as a taxable telecom service.
Now the Flores Amendment vote makes crystal clear what we've always suspected: the real, principal Democratic goal of the "net neutrality" effort is to put hefty taxes and fees on your broadband bill.
You can fight back against HR1644, Nancy Pelosi's #TaxTheInternetAct, ahead of an expected floor vote next week here:
action.americancommitment.org/ctas/stop-nanc…
action.americancommitment.org/ctas/stop-nanc…
FYI, the current universal service fund tax on phone bills is 20%. Under the Pelosi bill, that tax could and would be expanded by a future FCC to Internet bills.
House votes TODAY on HR1644, Nancy Pelosi's #TaxTheInternetAct.
Urge them to VOTE NO here:
action.americancommitment.org/ctas/stop-nanc…
Urge them to VOTE NO here:
action.americancommitment.org/ctas/stop-nanc…
The @GOPLeader gets it.
Republican @congbillposey is reportedly considering voting for Pelosi's #TaxTheInternetAct. Say it ain't so, Po!
Cocaine Mitch is not a fan of Nancy Pelosi's #TaxTheInternetAct.
Every House Democrat and one wayward Republican - @congbillposey of Florida - voted for Nancy Pelosi's #TaxTheInternetAct.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2019/roll1…
clerk.house.gov/evs/2019/roll1…
Republican @repgregwalden offered this motion to recommit which would have stripped the backdoor tax increases from the bill.
It failed 204-216.
Every Republican and 13 Democrats voted to strip the tax hikes from the bill. 216 Democrats voted no.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2019/roll1…
It failed 204-216.
Every Republican and 13 Democrats voted to strip the tax hikes from the bill. 216 Democrats voted no.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2019/roll1…
THANK YOU to these 13 House Democrats who voted with Republicans to protect the ban on taxing your Internet bill. Shame on all the others Dems.
Now ask yourself this -- if the real goal of the Dem "net neutrality" exercise isn't to tax your Internet bill, why did 216 House Democrats vote against an amendment to expressly prohibit Internet taxes???
And why did the 13 Democrats who voted to block Internet taxes vote for the bill anyway when the amendment didn't pass???
.@RepBillFlores did offer the amendment at the markup. It failed on a party-line vote.
