Truth gets in the way of Carly’s “facts”

During Friday’s KTKZ debate, Carly said she’s been “leading the charge as a technology executive against Internet taxes.”

And back in February, Carly told California media that “no one has disputed the facts, because the facts are the facts.”

Sorry to provide the pin to burst that bubble once again, Carly, but it seems that “your” facts are not actually “the” facts.

Yesterday, while enjoying the Lantern Project’s favorite pastime (watching Congressional testimony on C-SPAN’s website) we found some video of Carly repeatedly voicing her support for taxing the Internet — the very words from the KGO report coming straight from Carly herself. Watch the video below:

She says it this way: “To exempt, forever, online commerce from taxation is unrealistic. So let’s start at the beginning. Let’s do the heavy lifting – a burden the states must first bear – to simplify and modernize the tax system to be fit to apply to the online world.”

And she says it that way: “It is not realistic of our industry to stand and say that taxation should never be applied to e-commerce.”

Then she says it this way: “Therefore what we are calling for is a concerted effort to do the heavy lifting and bring our taxation system into the modern age, so that we can tax in a fair way both online an offline transactions.”

Carly has tried to brush this under a rug before, claiming that “apparently, maybe Barbara Boxer, maybe Tom Campbell, has pulled this isolated quote from the year 2000. It’s ridiculous.” But after watching the video, her position becomes crystal clear.

Over and over and over again.

We’d love to see Carly to come clean with California voters. Nothing fancy needed — just a quick explanation of the apparent hypocrisy in her statements and an admission of her real record on Internet taxation will do the trick.