Today’s Politico has an op-ed on “net neutrality: the job-killing zombie,” from American Action Forum’s Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Sam Batkins.

On the FCC’s proposed “reclassification,” Holtz-Eakin and Batkins write:

“This could spell death to the thousands of jobs created each year by the billions of dollars private telecoms spend on infrastructure. Imposing net neutrality could reduce broadband expansion and cost the U.S. economy upwards of 300,000 jobs, according to a new Phoenix Center study. Just a 10 percent decline in IT infrastructure investment, Brett Swanson of Entropy Economics found, could eliminate 502,000 jobs and $62 billion in gross domestic product growth. This is a price that the U.S. economy cannot afford.”

“Policymakers and consumers need to ask why politicians and regulators should be allowed to regulate traffic volume on networks, rather than the companies that own the infrastructure and paid billions to build it in the first place?”

“There is no need for Washington to meddle in an industry that creates hundreds of thousands of new jobs and robust consumer choice. The Internet has been a remarkable achievement of human ingenuity and cooperation. Billions of individuals conduct business and share information over a network with no president, no chief executive officer, no board members and currently, no regulators.”

Read the complete op-ed here and read more about the risks of reclassification in today’s Online Supporter Week spotlight here.