Sen Cruz: 'Height of lunacy' to push online sales tax bill

Sen Ted Cruz (R-TX) said that it would be “the height of lunacy” for Congress to greenlight an online sales tax measure before the end of the year.

Sen Cruz, joined by other opponents of the Marketplace Fairness Act, derided the online sales tax proposal as essentially a giveaway to large retailers and their K Street lobbyists, and is “singularly directed against the little guys.” “Don’t mess with the Internet,” Sen Cruz said, citing a study that projected that the online sales tax measure would cost taxpayers $340 billion over a decade.