Posted on 04/12/2011 12:55:13 PM PDT by GreaterSwiss
Update 10:30 a.m. PT: I've heard back from Sen. Mike Enzi's office. It sent me e-mail this morning saying: "Senator Enzi plans to co-sponsor the Main Street Fairness bill with Senator Durbin. As far as a timeline or drafts, you'll have to check with Senator Durbin's office."
Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20052999-281.html#ixzz1JL8wTRdz A Democratic senator is preparing to introduce legislation that aims to end the golden era of tax-free Internet shopping.
The proposal--expected to be made public soon after Tax Day--would rewrite the ground rules for Internet and mail order sales by eliminating the ability of Americans to shop at Web sites like Amazon.com and Overstock.com without paying state sales taxes.
Dick Durbin of Illinois, the second most senior Senate Democrat, will introduce the bill after the Easter recess, a Democratic aide told CNET.
"Why should out-of-state companies that sell their products online have an unfair advantage over Main Street bricks-and-mortar businesses?" Durbin said in a speech in Collinsville, Ill., in February. "Out-of-state companies that aren't paying their fair share of taxes are sticking Illinois residents and businesses with the tab."
At the moment, Americans who shop over the Internet from out-of-state vendors aren't always required to pay sales taxes at the time of purchase. Californians buying books from Amazon.com or cameras from Manhattan's B&H Photo, for example, won't pay the sales taxes at checkout time that they would if shopping at a local mall--which is what Durbin means by giving online retailers an "unfair advantage."
On the other hand, there are some 7,500 different taxing jurisdictions in the United States, each with a set of very precise rules describing what can and can't be taxed and at what rate. That makes it challenging terrain for retailers to navigate.
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Haven’t we all had that funny feeling about new taxes being foisted on us?
And what better “wealth” to tax than internet transactions?
So, the packages fly to the customers’ homes by balloon, good to know.
well put.
I don’t think Brady has a statewide future after losing the unlosable race, even though it was stolen, it’s the perception.
I’ll throw out a name though, our young Lieutenant Governor in exile Jason Plummer.
Just like in 2008 the combine will work hard to make sure he gets a pass just like Kirk got in the GOP primary. We need someone real to have the stones to defy them and run anyway.
We really needed him to be elevated to rat leader to raise his vulnerability.
I hope that Rep. Roskam will run for the U.S. Senate, in 2014. Two of the last three times that Illinois elected a new U.S. senator, that candidate was a state legislator. Those two were Barack Obama and Peter Fitzgerald. The exception was Mark Kirk. Since Roskam has been a state senator and congressman, from the Chicago area, that experience would help him win the primary and general elections.
I agree that State Sen. Brady shouldn’t run, statewide, but I hope that he’ll run for Congress, in 2012. In 2000, when then-State Rep. Tim Johnson ran for Congress, he promised that he wouldn’t be a congressmen for more than three terms. He later broke his promise, and, in 2010, he won his sixth term. In 2012, he probably won’t run, and Brady could win his seat.
Sounds good. I wouldn’t mind seeing Brady primary Johnson if Johnson does run. Johnson is not conservative enough for a safe GOP seat.
Of course 1 GOP will be eliminated. Maybe Johnson’s, but I hear that Aaron Schock’s seat is the considered by many to be easiest to draw out, there’s talk of tossing him and Bobby Schilling in the same district.
Robert Borkish, one of my facebook friends who lives in Rockford, predicted that Reps. Dold (my congressman) and Roskam would be in the same district. If I was a democrat state legislator, I’d want to eliminate the most conservative congressman, Roskam, by giving parts of his district to Schakowsky, Quigley, and Davis. They could give Maine and Niles Townships to Dold, instead of Schakowsky. They could give Waukegan Township to Walsh, instead of Dold. If that happens, Dold and Walsh would probably lose.
No, smarta$$, but the road taxes are paid by the shipping companies like FedEx or UPS already - that is not what the sales taxes are for, at least not in California. So there is still no good reason to charge sales taxes on Internet sales.
There are plenty of good reasons, they just don’t happen to meet your approval, so, rather than returning a personal insult, I’ll close with we’ll have to agree to disagree.
And if you are going to make a smarta$$ remark, don't take it as a "personal insult" when someone calls you on it.
You referred to me as smartass, which is the personal insult. Nice try though.
Here in MA we have everything shipped to our family and friends in NH and pick it up whenever we happen to be visiting. Oh, and of course we also do all of our major purchases there as well, saving the odious MA sales tax.
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