Well reasoned. Well spoken. Bravo!
Not a dime’s worth of difference.
TRANSLATION: "I see you have some money there. Give it to me."
Hope it never gets past the House of Reps. Too many Senators go voer so easy...but the folks we elected in 2010 to the House have to hold strong.
Dickbrain Durbin loves taxes, and always has. He is especially fond of big government, and the bigger the better.
What a loathesome creature he is.
Here is a partial solution to the “clicks vs. bricks” marketplace:
Have a local “store” where samples are provided (floored) by the various manufacturers. Can be cross industry or single field focus.
Smart phones and other handheld devices read the item codes. (A device can be handed to customers as they walk in the store, also). Item codes also identify the store.
They link to their favorite comparison shopping sites and can purchase on-line. (Of course kioskes would be available at the store.)
Basically, customers can see, touch, feel, inspect items prior to on-line purchases.
Store revenue streams are — but not limited to — flooring costs TO manufactures and a fractional percent of sales. I’m certain there would be other incidental revenue streams.
This way the customer gets exactly what he wants ... inspect the items prior to purchase, then to purchase it at the best price in the universe.
I know there are some significate hurdles to leap to create a successful business model, but this is a good seed.
I’m at a stage where I like quiet things in my life so I personally have no desire to ramp up such an operation, but I think this idea has some merit worth pursuing.
Hopefully, some enterprising FReeper becomes fabulously wealthy tapping into this future shopping concept.
Good luck and God Bless.
P.S. Screw the government and private sector sucor statists.
It’s amazing how much support over the years people in TN have given to Lamar! About that of Mitch McC to the north, two who always disappoint
It’s amazing how much support over the years people in TN have given to Lamar! About that of Mitch McC to the north, two who always disappoint
IT’s not a tax increase, it is fair, and it is a state’s rights issue.
Taxes to be fair should be broadly based and distort the market as little as possible. This bill, or one like it (don’t know whether the specifics are badly written), will eliminate a long-term distortion in the market that is created by the disparate tax treatment of items sold within a state and items sold from one state to another by busineses that aren’t in the state.
A tax system that allows Amazon.com to sell an internet item without sales tax, while requiring Walmart.com to charge a tax on the exact same item to the exact same person, is a distorted tax system.
Too many conservatives fight against this reasonable change because, sadly, they like cheating on their taxes. Every state with a sales tax also has a “use tax”, which residents of that state are REQUIRED BY LAW to pay whenever the company which sells them a product does not collect the tax.
But since it is hard for the state to know about these purchases, people can easily avoid paying their tax. And for some reason, a lot of conservatives think that if the government can’t catch you, it’s OK not to pay your taxes.
As demonstrated by the elections since the "fab" 94 class, no GOP congress or WH has done anything to stop the continuing loss of our freedoms and the destruction of the former Constitution.
The GOP happily promoted this destruction, albeit at an order-of-magnitude lesser rate than the out-of-the-closet Marxists klintoon & obmao.
This election will have no impact on preventing the Reagan prophesy. We are already several years into the "1000 years"
" The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." -- Frederick Douglass, August 4, 1859
All I can hear is "Baaa...Baaa" from the serfs...Unfortunately, as I rapidly approach 80 years, I can still remember when it was the "citizenry" who sang "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition".
So much focus on enemies without (the mainstay strategy of all totalitarian reimes) has allowed our worst enemies, within, to win the battle for this Nation.
I keep getting Lamar! confused with Lugar! Might be because they were twins separated at birth. At least Lamar! lives in his state....
I hope this chameleon gets thrown out on his backside in 2014.
There already is a fee that levels the field between brick and mortar and eCommerce. It’s called shipping and handling.
The ‘99%ers’ who want to get from government without paying vigorously support tax-free internet purchases...
It’s time to stop subsidizing internet commerce and the ‘99%ers’. Let them pay their ‘fair share’ LOL!