Posted on 03/10/2015 8:30:40 PM PDT by PROCON
A bipartisan group of senators reintroduced legislation Tuesday to apply sales taxes to all Internet purchases, long a goal of state and local governments as well as traditional "bricks and mortar" retailers. The legislation would require online merchants to collect and remit sales taxes to the local authorities where the purchaser lives.
Similar legislation easily passed the Senate, 69-27, last Congress, but stalled in House due to opposition from the Republican leadership. Passage in the Senate is less likely this time since Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., an opponent of the legislation, is now majority leader.
Proponents nevertheless believe they can still get in through the Senate. "Businesses in Illinois are looking for a level playing field. We came close in the last Congress, but the bill was never acted on in the House of Representatives. I hope that in the 114th Congress we can do what's right for businesses in Illinois and around the country," said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., a co-sponsor.
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Taxes, taxes, taxes. :)
That’s our plan. :)
Tax and destroy
What do these guys do...just sit around looking for ways to get more money so they can buy more votes? You guys at the Federal, State, and Local gov’t have enough money if you manage it well. Instead of looking for more money, look for ways to lower costs. If you need help, go ask Mitch Daniels, the former governor of Indiana and Treasurer under Reagan.
There is no federal sales tax.
As even the bill’s sponsors admit, local authorities ie states and cities levy sales taxes.
So how and why does the federal government believe it is empowered to dictate the collection of taxes that it neither enacted into law nor collects?
I thought tax bills were supposed to originate in the house.
SCOTUS has already responded...can you say Obamacare?
Ha! You thought wrong. Didn't you get your abridged version of the Constitution yet?
It’s a Zombie Attack!
there’s apparently no limit how much they’ll try to tax us, until they squeeze the old milk cow dry
Finally! Something McConnell, and Boehner can fight for.
Same a-holes.
This one really pees me off.
It has been very troubling in recent years to see all the growth and innovation that an unfettered internet has made possible.
Thankfully our elected representatives, working in tandem with the unelected and unaccountable bureaucracy are on the case.
The internet will be regulated and taxed into bland mediocrity in short order.
Calling Darryl Dixon !
Didn’t we fight a war over this very thing back in the 1700’s? Look at the rebellions thought out history ... most were about people getting upset about being overtaxed.
Not happening,
Most taxes are impractical to try to raise by Executive order, and this one especially .
I have not bought a single thing from Amazon.com since October 1 when they started collecting Maryland sales taxes.
They had to because they opened two distribution centers in the state figuring that the tax credits they go for it and and faster delivery would make up for loss in business due to collecting those taxes.
I despise those supporting this bill.
that sounds familiar, yes....
I’ll do so, so long as they pay for all costs involved in collecting and remitting it.
They don’t, I won’t.
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