Sarah shows yet again why she is no friend to the Big Monied interests who infect the Parties.
That is why powerful people have to put her down to your typical low information voter.
Posted on 05/07/2013 12:35:02 PM PDT by KC_Lion
Taxed Enough Already?
This new tax increase – the internet sales tax – must be stopped in the House. The Senate just passed it, and many Senators want to justify their tax increase vote by claiming that it will somehow “level the playing field” for brick and mortar retailers. This isn’t legit.
This is actually a boon to the big online powerhouses like Amazon who can afford the insane paperwork that comes with complying with government’s newest tax. The smaller mid-size online operations and smaller brick and mortar businesses, many family-owned with small staffs, who want to have larger online presences will be swamped with the regulatory paperwork of complying with the tax requirements for all these different states.
This new internet tax is not only another barrier to entry for smaller online start-ups, it’s a disincentive to grow a company. This will hit these smaller companies right where their margin of profit is, which means that this will cost jobs because when businesses lose profitability, they lay off workers or shut down.
Did Republicans who voted for this new tax on businesses forget that it will trickle down to consumers in this dangerously weak economic era? And when smaller and mid-size operations are pushed out of business, we have less competition and fewer choices in the marketplace.
Here’s an example: say you want to order Runner’s World’s re-release of Dr. George Sheehan’s book “Running and Being.” I just ordered it. You could get it at Amazon, and they’d have no problem calculating the minutia of sales tax regulations for your state because they have a boatload of employees (and lobbyists) to deal with this burden, but their base price for the book might be higher than the smaller online business competing with them. But thanks to this new internet sales tax, that smaller business will now have a whole new burdensome level of stifling government bureaucracy over their heads as they scramble to comply with various states’ sales tax rules and rates. And when this smaller business goes out of business because they can no longer make a profit, someone will lose his or her job and you will be left with fewer options when you go shopping for a better price online. Amazon doesn’t sweat it – in fact they support it.
Those “small government champions” of our middle class’s mom and pop businesses should ask themselves why they want to be any part of limiting the growth opportunities for smaller operations? More and more shopping is done online today, and every smart brick and mortar mom and pop wants to get in on that; and when they do, they should be allowed to produce by the sweat of their brow and ethically grow beyond being just a small online operation without worrying about a massive regulatory burden if they gross more than $1 million in sales in a year.
Bottom line: These anti-small business measures disincentivize the start-ups we need, and any measure to stick it to the consumer by increasing taxes for government growth is not what Republicans are supposed to fight for. I bet that once the tax increase is explained, your constituents won’t want you to contribute to government growth via increased internet taxes. And that’s what this is all about. House GOP, read your constituent’s lips: No New Taxes.
- Sarah Palin
P.S. I see that some are saying that a “positive” measure in this bill that the GOP Senators who voted for it liked is that it requires the government to provide “free” sales tax calculating software to all companies for compliance. Here’s a little newsflash: when it’s from the government, it’s not “free”! It’s being paid for by the very same people this new tax will hit in the pocketbook. That would be “We the People.”
Big Government Intervention doesn't hurt Amazon, Coke or Pepsi, it does it Joe's Small Bushiness Company in Clinton, Missouri. Joe struggles with the new costs, goes out of business and the Giant Corporations loose a regional competitor!
Everyone wins, except you.
Sarah shows yet again why she is no friend to the Big Monied interests who infect the Parties.
That is why powerful people have to put her down to your typical low information voter.
Sarah. She gets it.
The one good thing that idiot McCain did was put this woman on the national stage.
and as a former State Governor, she speaks with some authority on this issue.
You Know She Does!
Why, oh why do they think we are so stupid???
There's a minute and a half promo at the start, but this is a long video you want to send to everyone who isn't yet convinced. This is the history of the roadmap that was created by the Fabians, the Marxists, the progressives, et al toward the destruction of America. It is on track, and has been successful beyond expectation! This is the video which explains the end of America, and what is in store. Can I say it plainer? Pass it around, if you wish. God bless.
He probably thinks he was an idiot for doing so.
How much more could we have organized and fought back against the obamacare bill? And they passed it anyway.
RIght on, Sarah! I only wish the veil would be lifted from the eyes of our citizens, and that they would be able to see the truth about what is happening.
This is Greed’s day, not Freedom’s day.
Someday, I hope we can once again have Freedom’s day.
Each generation must earn the right to be free for itself. So many have forgotten this.
Peace is not the highest goal...freedom is.
Sarah gets it and alot of Republicans either don’t get it or are teetering on giving up
This has been an ongoing process for sometime now.
In 2002, many state governments came together to fight against the tax-free internet shopping trend. They formed together and made the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement (SSUTA), also known as the Streamlined Sales Tax Project (SSTP). As of 2005, there were 44 states that participated in SSTP. ******
Some states collect a use tax which is the same as the sales tax on items purchased online. The use tax is the responsibility of the purchaser to remit to the taxing agency whereas the sales tax, same amount is colleted by the seller and remitted to the taxing agency.
Somewhere I read during these discussion that something like $11 billion is the amount in taxes that is being impacted by this new approach.
Who knows how it will work out but I’d bet the gov’t isn’t going to lie back when and if they can collect this from the people.
The bill that the Senate passed has a similar bill over in the house but not on the floor yet. There are 65 co-sponors if anyone would like to take a look and see if their Congress critter is amongst them.
House Version:HR 684 including the 65 co-sponsors
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:HR00684:@@@L&summ2=m&;;;
Any who want to enjoy her various poses are certainly free to do so and do...but if she's going to run, which I don't believe for a minute she will, then the sex kitten photos need to be put aside and a more serious side be seen and heard.
However, since I don't believe she will run, hey she's making some money doing this and keeping the volume turned up...and for that I support her efforts.
Big business interests give big money to politicians and they win when their smaller competitors are taxed and regulated out of business.
They also want cheap labor from other countries. So the politicians they buy push “immigration reform”.
The RINO Republican politicians are financially supported by such interests, so we get this kind of policy from them.
ain’t she great
ain’t she great
This is corporatism (another word for economic fascism) at its finest.
For information:
the following link is to a zip code look up tax code info. Just enter the zip and it gives you the tax percent. I don’t if it is up to date or accurate with all taxing districts.
http://www.zip2tax.com/z2t_lookup.asp?s=google&gclid=CLiX_dH6hLcCFQVV4AodcWQAMA
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