Dear Patriot,

Representative Scott Rigell must really like Terry McAuliffe.

Why else would Representative Rigell be spearheading an effort to give Governor McAuliffe, and other tax-hungry governors, the power to grab more money from already over-burdened taxpayers and stifle businesses with more paperwork and regulations?

Representative Rigell is collecting cosigners for a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte demanding that Goodlatte pass the Marketplace Fairness Act (HR 684/S. 743) - more accurately called the National Internet Tax Mandate - out of his Committee so the bill can be rushed to the House floor and sent to President Obama for his signature.

So please call Representative Rigell immediately at 202-225-4215 and tell him you don’t want the Internet Tax Mandate!

And to make sure he gets the message, click here to sign your petition to demand Representative Rigell stop trying to ram through the Internet Tax Mandate.

Thanks to the efforts of Campaign for Liberty members like you, the Senate-passed National Internet Tax Mandate appeared dead for the year.

So Chairman Goodlatte, Jason Chaffetz, and other members of Congress are now working on an “alternative” proposal to move the power grab along.

But developing and passing a new version of the National Internet Tax Mandate will take time. First, the bill has to be drafted; then it has to be marked-up in committee. Then there will be a House vote and the Senate will either vote on the House bill or force a House-Senate conference committee to resolve the differences between the two versions.

This process could take weeks or months, giving Campaign for Liberty members time to put enough pressure on wavering House members to kill any version of the National Internet Tax Mandate.

Now, Scott Rigell is trying to “fast track” the Senate-passed National Internet Tax Mandate through the House.

Representative Rigell must be hoping that if the Judiciary Committee passes the National Internet Tax Mandate, the House leadership will quickly ram it through before opponents of the bill can mobilize enough opposition to stop it.

If the Senate bill passes the House, it will go directly to President Obama’s desk. And you know President Obama is champing at the bit to help statist pals like Terry McAuliffe collect more tax money.

Representative Rigell’s National Internet Tax Mandate will:

• Raise prices on everything you buy online;

• Provide big-spending governors with new bailout money through the federal government imposing more taxes on their citizens;

• Violate the principle of “No Taxation without Representation” by allowing state legislatures to raise taxes on individuals and businesses located out of state with them having little, if any, recourse against politicians who hike tax rates;

• Unleash tax collectors in one state to pursue retailers across state lines;

• Allow government bureaucrats from all fifty states to examine every Internet purchase you make in order to ensure you are complying with the National Internet Tax Mandate;

• And make it easier for the federal government to sic the IRS on the Internet!

The massive cost of complying with the National Internet Tax Mandate could drive many smaller Internet companies out of business, while others may never even be created. Meanwhile, the incentive to raise sales taxes will lead to an explosion of already out-of-control state budgets.

Growing government while shrinking the most dynamic sector of the economy is a recipe for economic stagnation.

So please call Representative Rigell at 202-225-4215 and tell him you don’t want the Internet Tax Mandate!

And to make sure he gets the message, click here to sign your petition to demand Representative Rigell stop trying to ram through the Internet Tax Mandate.

Also, if you can, please chip in $10 or $20 to help Campaign for Liberty stand up to big-spending politicians and deep-pocketed special interests and continue fighting the National Internet Tax Mandate.

In Liberty,

John Tate
President

P.S. Representative Scott Rigell is tired of waiting for the House Republicans to draft a “compromise” version of the National Internet Tax Mandate, so he is pushing the House Judiciary Committee to rubber-stamp the Senate-passed Marketplace Fairness Act.

Representative Rigell’s National Internet Tax Mandate will raise the price on every good you purchase on the Internet, subject Internet businesses to new rules and regulations, allow government bureaucrats to rummage through records of your Internet purchases, and even facilitate the imposition of new federal sales taxes.

If Representative Rigell gets his way, the National Internet Tax Mandate could fly through the House and go directly to President Obama before we can mobilize enough opposition to kill it.

So please call Representative Rigell at 202-225-4215 and tell him you don’t want the Internet Tax Mandate!