Freshman Republican, Ron DeSantis (R-FL), published an op-ed in the Daytona Beach News Journal on Sunday that outlined the Congressman’s concerns with the so-called Marketplace Fairness Act.  Congressman DeSantis, an attorney and Member of the House Judiciary Committee, expressed his belief that the Marketplace Fairness Act “ would undermine the principle of taxation without representation and sets the precedent for politicians to shift more and more tax and regulatory burdens to out-of-state businesses, thereby immunizi

Last week, Congressman Steve Daines (R-MT) went down to the House floor to express his opposition to the so-called Marketplace Fairness Act currently pending in the U.S.

This week, former Governor of Virginia, Jim Gilmore, expressed his opposition to the so-called Marketplace Fairness Act that is currently being debated in Congress.  While speaking on the Stuart Varney show, Governor Gilmore raised the concerns that he has with the Internet sales tax legislation, including the impact that this will have on small businesses all across the country that are trying to compete with big box retailers and the American consumers that enjoy the variety and choice of the online marketplace.

This week, during an interview with Bloomberg TV, Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said that he believes the Internet sales tax bill would impose new burdens on small businesses and that he “probably” won’t support the bill.  Speaker Boehner commented that “moving this bill where you’ve got 50 different sales tax codes, it’s a mess out there”, and that “you’re going to make it much more difficult for online retailers to be able to comply.”