This week, opponents of the Senate-passed Internet sales tax held a press conference on Capitol Hill to call on Congress to keep the so-called Marketplace Fairness Act out of the lame duck session. Participants included Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), Senator-elect Steve Daines (R-MT), Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY), Congressman Walter Jones (R-NC), Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Congressman Doug Lamborn (R-CO) and a number of taxpayer advocacy groups and think tanks. During the press conference, Cruz said that the online sales tax proposal is directed against the little guys. “Don’t mess with the Internet,” Cruz said, citing the NTU study that projected that the online sales tax measure would cost taxpayers $340 billion over a decade.

Sen.-elect Steve Daines said that the debate over the bill should take place in regular order, and not be rushed at the end of a congressional session. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has publicly announced his intention to move the Marketplace Fairness Act in the final weeks of Congress. However, Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), a longtime critic of the online sales tax bill, recently said that he wouldn’t allow the bill to move forward this year.

eBay Inc. also opposes the Senate-passed Marketplace Fairness Act and believes that the bill would negatively impact tech-enabled small businesses all across the country. Learn more about the Internet sales tax issue and voice your concerns with the bill.