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Get Ready To Be Taxed on Internet Purchases
National Journal via Yahoo ^ | 4/23/13 | Nancy Cook

Posted on 04/23/2013 1:54:01 PM PDT by Jean S

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To: prisoner6
Weasel socialists have ways around everything.

We can do the same to them. Trust me there are ways. F**K them!

101 posted on 04/23/2013 7:26:46 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: Jean S

Prolly because Wal-Mart wants to compete with Amazon.


102 posted on 04/23/2013 7:26:51 PM PDT by joyce11111 (he police minute)
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To: grimalkin
If justice was truly served, they'd all be in prison.

If justice was TRULY served, we would have hung most of them long ago. But I repeat myself.

103 posted on 04/23/2013 7:30:31 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: savedbygrace

“has a “presence” in a State”

Correct, but the courts have also said a presence must be at least one person paid by the company that conducts their primary job within the state. As you said, this bill doesn’t even require that.


104 posted on 04/23/2013 7:32:06 PM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off.)
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To: dadfly
boehner controls the house where revenue bills have to originate.

That portion of the Constitution was gutted several years ago when a tax bill originated in the Senate and was then passed by the House. Michelle Bachmann pointed out at the time it was Unconstitutional and still a bunch of traitorous Republicans voted for it.

Welcome to Venezuela of the North. How long before the government sends inspectors into your home to look for incandescent light bulbs (as was done by the military in Venezuela)?

105 posted on 04/23/2013 7:52:00 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: Jean S

Sellers only need to keep track of 10,000 separate tax codes in the United States. They are trying to break the backs of internet sellers and drive customers away. If something is working, our congress and president must destroy it.


106 posted on 04/23/2013 7:54:37 PM PDT by floriduh voter (Roku cheaper than cable. It's free once you buy one.)
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To: Jean S

“Today, while local small-business retailers follow the law and collect sales taxes from customers who make purchases in their stores,”
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Really...small-business retailers? NOT! Walmart is probably behind this as well as those money grubbing democrats. I believe Obama is “gifting” this bill for Walmart because they backed obamacare and I believe Walmart is also extremely interested in pushing the immigration bill.(cheap Mexican labor)


107 posted on 04/23/2013 7:58:19 PM PDT by Ms Mable
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To: Patriot365

This could be even worse. I have streaming media to escape cable tv. Streaming media uses my wireless router to pick up the signal. I wonder if Netflix, amazon, et al will be taxing the tv shows and movies people select on their tv or internet. Cable is a wasteland. At least streaming media has thousands to choose from. I guess I won’t be ordering tv shows if they are going to be taxed. I should call Senator Rubio to find out if streaming media will be taxed. Of course they won’t know cuz he’s too busy helping the democrats get the hispanic vote.


108 posted on 04/23/2013 7:59:59 PM PDT by floriduh voter (Roku cheaper than cable. It's free once you buy one.)
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To: Jean S
Is purchasing downloads a purchase? Is renting Netflix or other tv channels via streaming media going to be a purchase? IF so, I guess I won't be purchasing Spongebob Squarepants from amazon.

Does anyone know if this affects movie and tv show downloads? This could kill Netflix. It would be cheaper for people to go to Red Box at their corner store and rent a movie outright.

Is downloading movies/tv a rental or a purchase????? What about i-tunes? This might be bigger than ebay and amazon. Way bigger.

109 posted on 04/23/2013 8:02:38 PM PDT by floriduh voter (Roku cheaper than cable. It's free once you buy one.)
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To: TurboZamboni

The garage sale police will do warrantless searches too. It’s easier to go after regular people vs. real criminals and terrorists, drug cartels.


110 posted on 04/23/2013 8:04:35 PM PDT by floriduh voter (Roku cheaper than cable. It's free once you buy one.)
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To: floriduh voter

NOTE TO SELF: phone calls.


111 posted on 04/23/2013 8:05:53 PM PDT by floriduh voter (Roku cheaper than cable. It's free once you buy one.)
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To: floriduh voter

Phone calls on post 59.


112 posted on 04/23/2013 8:07:01 PM PDT by floriduh voter (Roku cheaper than cable. It's free once you buy one.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Lightbulbs are in an undisclosed location but if they confiscate our property, lightbulbs will be immaterial.


113 posted on 04/23/2013 8:08:40 PM PDT by floriduh voter (Roku cheaper than cable. It's free once you buy one.)
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To: Patriot365

You’re punishing Amazon because they “(k)nuckled under to Texas on sales taxes”? You should be mad at Texas, not Amazon. Texas has a law... if you have a presence in the state, then you pay sales taxes. Amazon has a presence in Texas, so they follow the law. What would you expect them to do? Move their distribution center OUT of Texas?


114 posted on 04/23/2013 8:11:12 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: PastorBooks

Maybe the IRS will have a database. It will be as excellent as the database we don’t have yet for health care exchanges. In other words, this government is incapable of doing anything correctly but it doesn’t stop them. We’re from the government and we are to help separate you from your money. You have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it, internet retailers.


115 posted on 04/23/2013 8:13:39 PM PDT by floriduh voter (Roku cheaper than cable. It's free once you buy one.)
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To: floriduh voter

When you order online you have to factor in the shipping & handling fees. If your purchase is sent via USPS the gov. gets that money. With a tax added, buying online will no longer have a positive reason for doing so. I will buy locally and pay the tax and save on the S&H. Could it be that they lose enough on postage to cancel any benefit from a new tax? Just asking. The P.O. is already in deep trouble.


116 posted on 04/23/2013 8:42:51 PM PDT by WVNan
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To: Jean S

Which brick and mortar business files quarterly sales tax forms to thousands of separate tax jurisdictions. This does not level the playing field, it kills off the small businesses that provide most of America’s jobs. Meanwhile big business bailouts and crony capitalism run rampant.


117 posted on 04/23/2013 8:44:48 PM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: onyx

Buuuuump!


118 posted on 04/23/2013 8:49:48 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Jean S

no because shopping will simply move outside the usa.

Policians who don’t know how ecconomics work.


119 posted on 04/23/2013 8:51:48 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Jean S
Proposed Internet sales-tax legislation received a huge boost on Monday when the White House officially backed the bill, saying it would level the playing field among online and retail stores by ensuring that both pay sales taxes. (Bold added)

Well, not exactly.

There are no shipping and handling charges with brick-and-mortar "retail stores."

So this bill would really allocate to those stores a huge advantage...

120 posted on 04/23/2013 9:22:53 PM PDT by AmericanExceptionalist (Democrats believe in discussing the full spectrum of ideas, all the way from far left to center-left)
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