[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 309 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 309

    Supporting the preservation of Internet entrepreneurs and small 
                              businesses.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            November 2, 2011

   Mr. Wyden (for himself, Ms. Ayotte, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Begich, Mr. 
Merkley, and Mr. Heller) submitted the following resolution; which was 
                  referred to the Committee on Finance

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                               RESOLUTION


 
    Supporting the preservation of Internet entrepreneurs and small 
                              businesses.

Whereas the United States enjoys a strong Internet retail market, which, for the 
        past decade, has provided consumers in the United States with the 
        opportunity to purchase quality products and services at competitive 
        prices;
Whereas the free Internet marketplace has enabled a large number of small 
        retailers and entrepreneurs across the Nation to establish and 
        strengthen businesses on various e-commerce platforms and therefore 
        protect and create jobs, increase consumer choice, create competition in 
        the retail industry, and provide quality goods and services at 
        reasonable and often discounted prices;
Whereas any Federal legislation that would upset the free and fair Internet 
        marketplace and allow State governments to impose new, onerous and 
        burdensome sales tax-collecting schemes on out-of-State, Internet-
        enabled small businesses would adversely impact hundreds of thousands of 
        jobs, reduce consumer choice, and impede the growth and development of 
        interstate commerce; and
Whereas at a time when national unemployment numbers are high and businesses 
        across the country are struggling to keep their doors open, the Federal 
        Government should promote pro-growth and pro-business policies instead 
        of enacting legislation that extracts additional taxes from our Nation's 
        Internet-enabled businesses: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that Congress should 
not enact any legislation that would grant State governments the 
authority to impose any new burdensome or unfair tax collecting 
requirements on small Internet businesses and entrepreneurs, which 
would ultimately hurt the economy of, and consumers in, the United 
States.
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