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Senate passes internet sales tax bill amid opposition from conservatives
The Guardian ^ | Monday, May 6, 2013 | Dominic Rushe

Posted on 05/06/2013 4:31:33 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA

The US Senate on Monday passed a bill aimed at ending tax-free shopping on the internet but the move looks set to face fierce opposition before it becomes law.

The Marketplace Fairness Act, which has cross-party supporter and the backing of powerful retailers, would give states the power to require retailers with sales over $1m to collect state and local sales taxes for online purchases.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 113th; ammobuyerslist; federalism; firearmsbuyerslist; gunlist4feds; internet; internetsalestax; internettax; marketplacefairness; nationalsalestax; online; salestax; tax; taxes; taxincrease; vattax
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To: GraceG

>> THEY ARE USING EMOTIONAL MANIPULATION ON THEM.

Indeed.


41 posted on 05/06/2013 4:57:36 PM PDT by Gene Eric (The Palin Doctrine.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

H.R. 684: The Marketplace Fairness Act. This is the House version of the Tax bill.

Log on to POPVOX and tell your Rep how you want them to vote on this issue.

https://www.popvox.com/home


42 posted on 05/06/2013 4:58:02 PM PDT by EXCH54FE (Hurricane 416,Feisty Old Vet !!)
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To: ConservativeInPA

The demokrats and their RINO lackeys are determined to sink this economy.


43 posted on 05/06/2013 4:58:51 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: GraceG

The more innocuous the name, the more dangerous the bill.


44 posted on 05/06/2013 5:01:53 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every liberal and WOD defender is a totalitarian screaming to get out.)
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To: SandRat

Depends if Bohener is on the more tax side. If he is against it, he will never allow a vote on it. If he is for it, there are enough RINOs who will side with the Rats to pass it.


45 posted on 05/06/2013 5:04:30 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every liberal and WOD defender is a totalitarian screaming to get out.)
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To: ConservativeInPA
Traitors RINOs:

Alexander (R-TN), Yea
Blunt (R-MO), Yea
Boozman (R-AR), Yea
Burr (R-NC), Yea
Chambliss (R-GA), Yea
Coats (R-IN), Yea
Cochran (R-MS), Yea
Collins (R-ME), Yea
Corker (R-TN), Yea
Enzi (R-WY), Yea
Fischer (R-NE), Yea
Graham (R-SC), Yea
Hoeven (R-ND), Yea
Johanns (R-NE), Yea
McCain (R-AZ), Yea
Portman (R-OH), Yea
Sessions (R-AL), Yea
Shelby (R-AL), Yea
Thune (R-SD), Yea
Wicker (R-MS), Yea

46 posted on 05/06/2013 5:05:01 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Molon Labe - Shall not be questioned)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Wicker of MS is voting like his cousin Fred Thompson would have had Fred still been in the Senate.


47 posted on 05/06/2013 5:08:15 PM PDT by Theodore R. ("Hey, the American people must all be crazy out there!")
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To: dalereed
At least cut them to one delivery a week.

I have no problem with that. But, given their desire to be a pain in the ass, I expect that one delivery a week to be Saturday.

48 posted on 05/06/2013 5:09:15 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
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To: Cyber Liberty

Barry Goldwater had moved far to the left by 1974; he was no longer the 1964 model for most of his later career. People in AZ just never knew.


49 posted on 05/06/2013 5:10:13 PM PDT by Theodore R. ("Hey, the American people must all be crazy out there!")
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To: y'all

Here is the actual roll call. . .

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=113&session=1&vote=00113


50 posted on 05/06/2013 5:10:17 PM PDT by deks ("...the battle...liberty against the overreach of the federal government" Ken Cuccinelli)
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To: ConservativeInPA

A “No Vote” is a “Yea.” Add Jeff Flake (R-AZ) to the list of traitors.


51 posted on 05/06/2013 5:11:22 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Well, well. No more local purchases except for monthly routine items, and no more purchases from the bigger, fatter out-of-state companies.


52 posted on 05/06/2013 5:12:35 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: Cyber Liberty

John Cornyn also sat out the vote. This is probably an unpopular tax in TX, where sales taxes are already high. Cornyn probably doesn’t understand that.


53 posted on 05/06/2013 5:12:45 PM PDT by Theodore R. ("Hey, the American people must all be crazy out there!")
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To: Theodore R.

Yeah, I knew. Second wife, pillow talk, loved gays, abortion good. Poof. Barry Goldwater wasn’t Barry Goldwater when he croaked.


54 posted on 05/06/2013 5:12:56 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
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To: Cyber Liberty

Flake was already flaking out even before he went to the Senate. It’s just that AZ Republican primary voters are too uninformed to notice.


55 posted on 05/06/2013 5:13:39 PM PDT by Theodore R. ("Hey, the American people must all be crazy out there!")
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To: Sirius Lee

I got an email from my RINO senator with the usual talking points about how it wasn’t really a tax increase and they were just making it “fair” for the poor merchants who sold locally.


56 posted on 05/06/2013 5:13:41 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every liberal and WOD defender is a totalitarian screaming to get out.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Follow the lobbyist money.
I am skeptical this new regulation will help competition.


57 posted on 05/06/2013 5:14:05 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: Theodore R.

The latter day Goldwater made Thomas E. Dewey seem kind of conservative.


58 posted on 05/06/2013 5:14:34 PM PDT by Theodore R. ("Hey, the American people must all be crazy out there!")
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To: ConservativeInPA

I stand corrected. Flake got in and voted “Nay!”


59 posted on 05/06/2013 5:15:19 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
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To: ConservativeInPA
Here is the letter I just wrote to my congressman:

Representative XXXX,

Please do not vote for the Internet sales tax.

Obamacare is already driving small businesses out of business. The Internet is one of the few places where individual entrepreneurs can compete with the big-government/big-corporate criminal complex. Make these entrepreneurs do the bookkeeping for sales taxes in fifty states, and you will succeed in driving most of the remainder out of business.

Maybe that's your plan. If it's not, then voting for this tax will bring it to pass anyway.

Sincerely,

E. Pluribus Unum

60 posted on 05/06/2013 5:20:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Moslems reserve the right to detonate anyone who says otherwise.)
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