This week, the Sacramento Bee published an opinion piece by Brandon Arnold, executive vice president of the National Taxpayers Union (NTU), arguing that the Senate passed Marketplace Fairness Act would negatively impact consumers and small tech-enabled businesses next holiday season. “If some members of Congress get their way, you might be short $360 come next Christmas”, wrote Arnold. “The legislation would remove constitutionally enshrined limitations on commercial regulation by empowering state governments to collect taxes on interstate transactions.

During a closed door meeting this week, Speaker of the House, John Boehner (R-OH), renewed his previous commitment to not move the Senate passed Marketplace Fairness Act in the House in the remaining weeks of Congress. Attending the meeting were roughly 30 House Republicans, among them co-sponsors of the bill and members of the Judiciary Committee that has jurisdiction over the bill.

This week, The Hill published a commentary piece from Hamilton Davison, president and executive director of American Catalog Mailers Association (ACMA), that supported Speaker John Boehner’s decision to not move the Marketplace Fairness Act forward during the lame duck session of Congress. “House Speaker John A.

Earlier this week Mace Brasher, owner of Jester’s Jerseys, a small online athletic apparel retailer, wrote an opinion piece featured in the Salt Lake Tribune. In the article Mr. Brasher describes how he started the business simply as a way to supplement his income and recounts how it has grown to employee 7 full-time employees who have moved from his living room to a local warehouse space. He also outlines the danger the current Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA) poses to his small, entrepreneurial business: