Millennials really don’t want their online shopping taxed.
A Gallup study released Thursday found that 73 percent of adults ages 18-29 oppose the Marketplace Fairness Act, a bill that would compel online retailers like Amazon to collect taxes for and pay them to state and local governments. The bill passed in the Senate last month.
“Young adults voice the most widespread opposition to such a law,” the Gallup release said. “If Republicans in the House oppose the Internet sales tax bill, that may help the GOP’s appeal to younger Americans, a key demographic in the party’s plans to build support before the 2014 and 2016 elections.”
While six in ten Republicans oppose the tax, according to the poll, several prominent GOP lawmakers support it. The bill was sponsored by Sen. Mike Enzi (Wyo.), and Sens. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), Richard Burr (N.C.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), John McCain (Ariz.), and Richard Shelby
That hasn’t stopped Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) are still voicing their opposition to the legislation, having assailed the bill in a Capitol Hill press conference on Tuesday.
“This bill is a mad bill and unfortunately it passed the U.S Senate,” Cruz said during Tuesday’s presser. “The reason that it passed and it passed with significant margin is because you have a lot of lobbyists in Washington who are supporting this bill…Small businesses don’t have lobbyists in D.C.”
