Posted on 05/06/2013 9:21:32 AM PDT by jazusamo
Freshman Sen. Ted Cruz, emerging as a leading voice of Capitol Hill conservatives, said Monday that it is “incomprehensible” that the Senate is close to passing a bill that would require booming Internet retailers to collect state sales taxes, warning that the move will kill jobs and hurt the economy.
Mr. Cruz, a Texas Republican and tea party favorite, called the Internet a “thriving ecosystem” that has allowed new businesses to “compete in the national marketplace in ways that would have been impossible 15 years ago, and it empowers consumer choice.”
“But tax-hungry politicians view the Internet as yet another source of revenue to bail out their big-spending governments,” Mr. Cruz wrote in an op-ed article for Real Clear Politics. “The misleadingly titled ‘Marketplace Fairness Act’ is a job-killing tax hike, plain and simple. It is, in effect, a national Internet sales tax, which would hammer the little guy and benefit giant corporations.”
Mr. Cruz also released a new Web spot that warns that the proposal would force businesses to collect taxes for 9,600 jurisdictions and politicians in jurisdictions headed by the likes of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, California Gov. Jerry Brown and New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.
“Even if they don’t represent you,” the ad says. “You will collect their taxes!”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
He speaks the truth.
Any way you slice it, this trickles down to the taxpayer. It’s a tax increase. The last thing we need right now.
It’ll run many Internet businesses out of business.
Think of the overhead and the nightmare of collecting sales tax for 9600 jurisdictions, it’s ridiculous.
I love this guy!
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I do not support internet sales tax.
***Internet retailers oppose the proposal because it will wipe away the advantage they hold over their brick-and-mortar rivals, which are subject to state sales taxes. Some say the proposal will help local retailers compete with the likes of Amazon and iTunes.***
One thing that I haven’t seen taken into account is that taxes are presumably to help pay for fire/police, sewar and other services that the brick and mortar benefit from. Retailers in cyberspace do not benefit or use any of this.
Therefore an Internet tax is another form of collectivism the way I see it.
Yup and we would be on a better footing with China if we still funded the federal government with Tariffs instead of income taxes.
Retailers in cyberspace do not benefit or use any of this.
Also when they pay for shipping they pay to places like UPS, FedEx, and USPS which then buy gas and other local utiltities which support local infrastructure as well..
It’ll run many Internet businesses out of business.
Think of the overhead and the nightmare of collecting sales tax for 9600 jurisdictions, it’s ridiculous.
Naw, Obama will just put government beer-o-craps to work to track this creating jobs and nationalizing every single mom and pop internet business in the country in one fell swoop......
So you are saying that all the Amazon and other big internet retailer do not have offices full of servers and some people that benefit from sewage and fire/police intervention if needed? Are the offices off planet? As far as if they are in another country that is basically off-shoring and I am not getting into that less I curse those that do it.
Think of the overhead and the nightmare of collecting sales tax for 9600 jurisdictions, it’s ridiculous.
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Kinda like catalog/mail order companies
“For the power given to Congress by the Constitution does not extend to the internal regulation of the commerce of a State, (that is to say of the commerce between citizen and citizen,) which remain exclusively (emphases added) with its own legislature; but to its external commerce only, that is to say, its commerce with another State, or with foreign nations, or with the Indian tribes.” –Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson’s Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank : 1791.
Here are official Supreme Court clarifications that Congress has no constitutonal authority to regulate intrastate commerce.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress (emphases added)." --Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824."Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description, as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state (emphasis added) and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass." --Justice Barbour, New York v. Miln, 1837.
Sadly, Congress's power-grabbing shenanigans are probably going to continue for quite awhile because parents are not making sure that their children are being taught about the federal government's constitutionally limited powers evidenced by the Constitution's Section 8 of Article I, Article V and the 10th Amendment.
Also, why isn't Ted Cruz pointing out constitutional limitations on Congress's powers?
To ensure that the government’s idea of “fairness” is achieved, shouldn’t “brick-and-mortar” stores also be required to collect sales taxes based on the purchaser’s residence? This would subject them to the same 9600 potential tax rates against which they would have to calculate, collect, and remit.
i am starting to like this true Maverick from Texas. No tax increase in a recession.
Amazing that Cruz is the ONLY Senator in GOP to take a stand against this tax bill, this what could be a VERY populist issue to rally against and beat Dems upover.
GOP usually takes unpopular positions and this internet tax enforcement bill is only liked by businesses and spend hungry politicians, probably would poll at 10 to 20% for with voters.
He is definitely the only one in the Senate worth a crap. Shame them Ted! GO!
Just FYI, the internet businesses already have to collect sales tax if the sale is in the state they have a business in. Happens to me all the time, so therefore they are already paying for their usage of sewer, fire etc. The bill in the works would requite them to collect tax in ALL states regardless if they have a business there or not. This would be the equivalent of charging CA sales tax to a customer in Nevada who was buying goods and who lived in CA. It is exactly the same thing. This bill needs to go, NOW.
The state they reside in is free to tax them, but my liberal state has zero business writing tax laws for them unless they move here and they WONT.
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