On June 11, Representatives Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and Trent Franks (R-AZ) reintroduced the ‘Wireless Tax Fairness Act’ (H.R. 2309), which would put a freeze on any new discriminatory state or local wireless taxes and fees for five years.
The bill was introduced with 144 cosponsors (currently at 162 and climbing), cutting across all cultural, demographical, geographical, and political lines. Similarly, individuals and organizations from all across the political spectrum are spreading the word.
Here’s what they’re saying:
- The American Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research: Discriminatory wireless taxation
- Americans for Tax Reform - Digital Liberty: Congress: Freeze Wireless Taxes, Support Wireless Tax Fairness Act!
- American Legislative Exchange Council: Congress Turns Its Attention to the State Wireless Tax Burden
- Citizens Against Government Waste: The High Taxation of Wireless Service
- Consumer Action: HR 2309 - The Wireless Fairness Act
- The Heartland Institute:
- Heartland Institute Experts React to Introduction of Wireless Tax Fairness Act
- John Nothdurft and Matthew Glans: Wireless Tax Fairness Act
- Research & Commentary: Wireless Tax Fairness Act Reintroduced
- The Institute for Policy Innovation:
- Mackinac Center for Public Policy: The Cellphone ‘Sin Tax’
- Madery Bridge Associates LLC: Time for Wireless Tax Fairness
- National Taxpayers Union:
- Politic365: Finally a Wireless Tax Break! The Re-Introduction of the Wireless Tax Fairness Act
- Progressive Policy Institute: Critical Progress on Wireless Broadband
- Taxpayers Protection Alliance: Can You Hear Us Now? Time to Pass the Wireless Tax Fairness Act
Simply put, the ‘Wireless Tax Fairness Act’ is something that we all agree on. Consumers like you need a break from higher taxes and Congress can deliver it.
Tell your Representative to support the ‘Wireless Tax Fairness Act’ today.
Please help spread the word: