FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is on a collision course with broadband internet service providers, Congress, the Senate, and everyone and anyone who believes in an unregulated internet. Chairman Genachowski is making a bid to increase his, and the FCC’s, power, by placing broadband internet services under the same regulations as those imposed on telephone companies.

While the scuffle started over an April court decision that undermined some of the FCC’s “assumed” power over broadband services, the Chairman’s push to get control of the internet, and what goes on there, could end up hurting the American economy during a time when the economy is trying to pull itself out of a national and global economic slump. By regulating and taxing what has always been a free economic zone of creation, Chairman Genachowski’s bid for power, could end up costing Americans thousands of jobs, and curtailing new research and development in new online endeavors.

If Chairman Genachowski gets control of the internet, and with it, the ability to regulate and tax broadband phone service providers, online television providers, online radio stations and others, like they do landline phone service, where is the benefit for the American people? As the internet stands now, it’s a hotbed for research and development of new products, technology and innovations that provide thousands of high paying jobs that might not happen if another federal bureaucrat decides that he knows best.

The question that people need to ask themselves is: “When was the last time the American people gave control of something to a federal bureaucrat, and got something better in return?”