Support the Mobile Wireless Tax Fairness Act

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Say NO to New Discriminatory State and Local
Wireless Taxes and Fees - FOR 5 YEARS!!

Senator Wyden and Senator Snowe have introduced S. 3249, the bipartisan Wyden-Snowe "Mobile Wireless Tax Fairness Act," pro-consumer legislation that will provide much-needed wireless tax relief to millions of American wireless users and their families, for five years. In recent MyWireless.org® consumer survey data, 85% of consumers supported a vacation from new excessive wireless taxes.

Please urge your Senators to join their Senate Colleagues by cosponsoring S. 3249 today. Also, you can say 'thank you' to your Senators who have already cosponsored this pro-consumer legislation. Take a look at the current cosponsors of the Wyden-Snowe Cell Tax Fairness Act.

The average American wireless consumer today now pays over 15 percent in wireless taxes and fees on their monthly bill - and in some states, 17 of them to be exact, tax rates have even skyrocketed to well over 15 percent in monthly wireless taxes. Amazingly, several of these states have even broken the 20% mark for taxation. Wireless taxes are currently DOUBLE or TRIPLE that of other goods and services, which stand at an average of 7%. Wireless consumers currently pay a whopping $21 billion dollars annually in wireless taxes and fees. More than 260 million Americans use their wireless device every day to stay connected to family and friends, and to the office. Congress must not let complicated and costly layers of state and local taxes, fees and surcharges make using your cell phone unaffordable.

What would you tell policymakers who propose new wireless taxes?


YOU CAN HELP TODAY by encouraging your U.S. Senators in Washington to support and co-sponsor S. 3249, the Wyden-Snowe "Mobile Wireless Tax Fairness Act," that will freeze all new discriminatory state and local wireless taxes for five years. Tell your friends, and contact your lawmakers today.

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Subject: No Unfair, New Wireless Taxes for Five Years
Dear [Lawmaker]:

Pro-consumer legislation affecting America's more than 265 million wireless consumers is currently being considered in the U.S. Senate after being introduced by Senator Wyden and Senator Snowe. As a consumer who relies on my wireless phone every day, I am asking you to please support and cosponsor S. 3249, the bipartisan Wyden-Snowe "Mobile Wireless Tax Fairness Act" today.

The average wireless consumer now pays approximately 15 % in wireless taxes and fees on their monthly bills. Amazingly, a number of states are even above the 20% mark. After going over my bill, I see that my wireless taxes are currently DOUBLE or TRIPLE the rate imposed on other goods and services, which is about 7% on average. In total, wireless consumers pay approximately $21 billion dollars annually in wireless taxes and fees to federal, state and local governments.

Senator, I now use my wireless device every day to stay connected to my family, to my office and to my friends. Please don't let even more complicated and costly layers of unfair, new state and local taxes, fees and surcharges be added to my monthly wireless service, making use of my cell phone unaffordable. At a rate of taxation that is already more than double, enough is enough! As my elected voice in Washington, I urge you to stand up for me and support this legislation that would provide a well-deserved 5-year hiatus from all NEW discriminatory wireless taxes and fees.

The "Mobile Wireless Tax Fairness" bill, S. 3249, places a 5-year freeze on current state and local taxes on wireless service, enabling Congress to address wireless tax fairness and to level the playing field for consumers, no matter where you live. Most important is the example set by the recent successful movement of the House companion bill, H.R. 5793, the bipartisan Lofgren-Cannon "Cell Tax Fairness Act of 2008" – this legislation received a recent House Judiciary Committee hearing and currently stands at nearly 140 cosponsors. It is important to me that this legislation receives a proper Committee hearing before the 110th Congress adjourns, and a fair floor vote when Congress begins the 111th in 2009.

Thank you for your leadership and hard work on behalf of the tens of millions of American wireless consumers. I strongly urge you to support and cosponsor S. 3249, the bipartisan Wyden-Snowe bill. Supporting a measure that will allow me and my family to keep a little more of our hard-earned money in these uncertain economic times would be greatly appreciated.

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