BOISE -- Some lawmakers are rallying around a bill to eventually tax Internet sales after House Speaker Lawerence Denney bottled up the measure in a special committee.
Democratic Rep. Wendy Jaquet from Ketchum is calling on her constituents to ask lawmakers to give the measure a fair hearing.
It was introduced this week in the House Revenue and Taxation Committee, on a 12-6 vote, after virtually identical measures died four years in a row.
But now, Denney has shifted the bill to the House Ways and Means Committee, a place where GOP leadership sometimes moves measures they want to quickly scuttle.
In an e-mail Friday, Jaquet told constituents the bill faces "certain death" if it stays where it is.
Proponents of taxing Internet sales say it will generate more revenue for public education and level the playing field for traditional Main Street businesses.
