The Senate Still Wants to Tax the Net

[Commentary] Get ready for new taxes on your monthly Internet access bill. A pending plan on Capitol Hill would extend the current ban on such taxes -- but only until just after the November elections. Pro-tax politicians think they can get away with soaking consumers once they've left the voting booth. Preventing 9,600 state and local tax collectors from attacking consumers' monthly Internet bills has been a bipartisan success story. But voters deserve to know that a Democratic-controlled Senate has done nothing to prevent new taxes online, while Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) favors a clean, permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act. November's elections have consequences.