Posted on 03/10/2010 3:26:01 AM PST by BulletBobCo
So...does Colorado expect us to pay tax on donations to say..Free Republic?
Repeal the law. Seems simple enough to me.
Anyone care to make a bet on which state capitol building is burned to the ground?
They should have stopped doing business in Florida years ago...
When someone from CO trys to order something online, the “store” should just say we don’t sell to CO due to their sales tax laws, sorry.
I am trying to understand what is going on here. How does this affect affiliates other than they tack onthe 2.9%?
Why would you move when I think it says all affiliates whether in state or out of state must collect from Colorado residents?
Just trying to understand.
Art I Sec 9:
No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.
Art I Sec 10:
No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it’s inspection Laws; and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.
Not out-of-State affiliates but only those in the State. It’s unconstitutional for any state to collect sales taxes on such commerce from a business in another state. That’s why states like Colorado are trying to collect the taxes through some sort of physical presence in their states.
Also, the law presents an invasion of privacy, IMO, by forcing residents to send records of what they have purchased to a state office. ...not for lawsuits on that last point but certainly for bad public affairs for the politicians deservedly lacking revenues for their employees’ hoggish ways.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2467800/posts
Sorry my bad, did not think it was so difficult but now understand better. It’s a nightmare to manage.
I prefer sales tax to Income tax. Here in Washington State we have a sales tax but no income tax.
How do you think States should compensate lost sales tax revenue? Not saying they should cut services such as Fire. Police etc. but without getting into a spending debate, I an wondering how local government gets funded as e-commerce forces then to take a hit?
I am sick to death of so many taxes and absolutely hate the income tax with every fiber of my being, but I can live with a reasonable sales tax because it is transparent and gives me a choice to avoid or not.
So I am just pondering what states and locals will do if their sales tax revenue streams decline and there’s nothing they can do about it. Hike property taxes? Hike local brick and mortar business taxes?
I wish there was the FairTax at both federal and state levels. And no property tax, no income tax, no capital gains tax, no business tax etc. But this is an issue of cross border tax engineering and it’s important how to make it simple, reasonable, fair and transparent.
I agree with everything you say but please see my post #12, think about it and please tell me what you think. Even if you don’t know what to think, it’s important to know your reaction. Thanks.
So....what about all those people who are going to have to wait to get their tax returns? This is even worse, because those tax returns are the peoples own money to begin with.
Starve this beast.
We can survive without their money, but they can't survive without ours.
90% of the taxes go to the enriching the bureaucracy and providing things citizens should be paying for themselves.
Education: If you have a kid pay for his education. Expecting someone else to pay is so un-American it makes my head explode. The whole education bureaucracy is completely unnecessary and useless, especially at the State and Federal level.
Medicare/Medicaid: People need to pay for their medical treatment. They've increased the demand dramatically with these idiotic programs and can't figure out why the costs have skyrocketed. Duh.
It goes on and on and on.
Government was designed to protect our unalienable rights.
How about they drop every other tax on businesses except for a sales tax? That would keep local vendors competitive and more than competitive.
Won’t happen, but it’s actually a revenue-neutral solution.
Also, why should an e-tailer in another state be required to pay for another state’s fire/police/idiot politicians when it will derive no benefit or service from said monies as they are not in that state?
I agree very much!
But I’ve asked some of the more visible proponents of the Fair Tax about abolishing property taxes while they’re at it. They won’t discuss it and said that they only want the sales tax while abolishing taxes on corporations.
So far, I’m through with helping any of the corporate-government-academic families with any political effort. They’re the problem.
If property taxes continue while corporate taxes are abolished, only the corporate-government-academic families will own real properties from then on. Everyone else would be evicted, because local governments (controlled by guess who, see above) would radically raise property taxes to put the peasants (the rest of us) out in order to beautify their housing developments (that is, “beautify” in the eyes of unhealthy NIMBYs and HOA queens).
So abolish property taxes exclusively first, and I’ll help with abolishing corporate taxes. Otherwise,...no-vote, and I’ll continue to advocate for self-sufficiency, until we see completely new leadership.
I agree but now we are getting into a spending debate.
I want to hear from you and others how local government can fund essentials such police, fire, courts, jails, etc.
I hate an income tax as well as property tax and business tax and IF sales tax takes a major hit with e-commerce expansion, then how to fund my local essential government services? That’s the question.
I am thinking tax engineering, how to design a fair, transparent, simple easy to manage tax system at the state/local level.
I am thinking outside the box such as endowed local tax bond issues that get a federal kickback if the local bond monies are attached to a US Treasury bond, so that state/locals get a reliable revenue stream for defined essential services only, and the federal kickback would be limited by the old Constitutional device of apportionment.
The above would segregate essential services from the tax revenue pools that leftist groups think they own for their waste and intrusion.
The more I think about my idea above the more I like it.
And by self-sufficiency, I mean avoiding all unnecessary personal purchases, growing our own food, producing our own energy, and each of us maintaining a hobby of manufacturing a useful necessity. ...until the default and subsequent completely new leadership (new families in business, politics and academia with no more inbreeding).
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