&gt; If it makes sense to reduce the tax revenue you can generally lower taxes for all products.<p>This isn&#x27;t about reducing tax revenue; this is about <i>not increasing</i> it, and specifically about not creating a new tax.<p>If tax revenue has gone down in some <i>other</i> area, the presumption should not automatically be to raise taxes elsewhere to compensate.<p>&gt; I&#x27;m not sure how it works in the US, but in the EU services (including internet access) are generally taxed with a VAT, just like every other product<p>Taxes in the US aren&#x27;t nearly that uniform.  Goods and services are not taxed universally at the federal level; many such goods and services have one-off special-case taxes.  For instance, phone service has several taxes.  Internet service, however, does not.  This bill is a statement against adding new special-case taxes for the Internet, and against adding new taxes for goods and services purchased through the Internet specifically because of their method of purchase.<p>Imposing any kind of universal sales tax would be an entirely separate question.<p>&gt; I say exactly the opposite: you can use taxing to make people buy more of something (some new tech you want to push) or less (e.g. cigarettes).<p>The US has various such subsidies and excise taxes (the latter of which I already mentioned).  But this isn&#x27;t an instance of that; this is simply choosing <i>not</i> to create a new tax on the Internet.