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Democratic senator wants Internet sales taxes (& Republican Enzi-WY also!)
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| 4/12/11
| Declan McCullagh
Posted on 04/12/2011 12:55:13 PM PDT by GreaterSwiss
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To: Recovering_Democrat
The retail association gave Durbin (Mafia) lots of donations...
To: redgolum
Local stores refuse to carry what I want to buy in many cases. It’s not even a matter of price, it’s a matter of ‘cannot get locally at any price.’
I should be taxed because my local stores are run by morons and refuse to stock what I want?
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posted on
04/12/2011 1:45:06 PM PDT
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: redgolum
It puts the local store at a disadvantage. Its a different business model that market forces should be sorting out. IF there is a disadvantage, then why should the government be the profiteer of sorting out the difference when the market would do, and is doing, that quite well. Besides, government does NOT need any new monies that they just spend on crap. They need to be shrunken down to a manageable size.
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posted on
04/12/2011 1:46:36 PM PDT
by
C210N
(0bama, Making the US safe for Global Marxism)
To: GreaterSwiss
...to be announced "after Tax Day" Who'da guessed?
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posted on
04/12/2011 1:48:04 PM PDT
by
theDentist
(fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
To: GreaterSwiss
Clean out the scum that inhabits both bodies of Congress.
These guys qualify as scum.
To: Poison Pill
They are required to pay use tax if their state has a sales tax.This is true, but essentially nobody actually does it.
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posted on
04/12/2011 1:54:25 PM PDT
by
xjcsa
(Ridiculing the ridiculous since the day I was born.)
To: C210N
Its a different business model that market forces should be sorting out. IF there is a disadvantage, then why should the government be the profiteer of sorting out the difference when the market would do, and is doing, that quite well.I think the argument is that the government *is* sorting out winners and losers under the current system, and this would put the government back in a "neutral" position.
That said, I don't like the bill, and would not support it unless it included substantial cuts in other taxes.
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posted on
04/12/2011 1:57:44 PM PDT
by
xjcsa
(Ridiculing the ridiculous since the day I was born.)
To: Brown Deer
So as an Ebay seller I’m going to have to get sales tax licenses and send in taxes to all of these different jurisdictions? BS, aint gonna happen, see if they want to extradite me to each state for about $50/year.
To: GreaterSwiss
Looks like another super-RINO has been unmasked!!
To: GreaterSwiss
Looks like another super-RINO has been unmasked!!
To: july4thfreedomfoundation
You’re always paying for shipping fees, it’s just hidden in physical stores. Much like the corporate income tax.
To: GreaterSwiss
Good ole government, always wanting to stick its nose where it doesn’t belong.
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posted on
04/12/2011 2:13:22 PM PDT
by
RWB Patriot
("My ability is a value that must be purchased and I don't recognize anyone's need as a claim on me.")
To: conservativebuckeye
Youre always paying for shipping fees, its just hidden in physical stores.
The shipping fees per item are not nearly the same as the cost of shipping a single item to the buyer. Besides, the internet retailer also has their hidden shipping fees.
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posted on
04/12/2011 2:16:26 PM PDT
by
Brown Deer
(Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
To: dalereed
Sales tax will be the death of internet sales. In most cases it is the only reason to buy on the internet.
Which is why big-box retailers are behind the push for this.
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posted on
04/12/2011 2:30:22 PM PDT
by
Spirochete
(Sic transit gloria mundi)
To: Recovering_Democrat
WTF? Here is the solution: lower state taxes or get rid of them. why is the solution always to raise taxes on other sales? Thank you!! Fk. I want to blow my brains out the more I keep reading, hearing that raising taxes is the only fair solution to this or that.
To: 5thGenTexan
This isn’t about a federal tax, it’s about congress authorizing the states to force business in other states to remit sales tax to them even thought those businesses use none of the distant states resources.
It’s just more revenue for the states to waste.
NO!
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posted on
04/12/2011 2:33:02 PM PDT
by
Valpal1
("No clever arrangement of bad eggs ever made a good omelet." ~ C.S. Lewis)
To: GreaterSwiss
See, elections don’t matter.
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posted on
04/12/2011 2:38:58 PM PDT
by
unixfox
(Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
To: redgolum
It puts the local store at a disadvantage. No, the local store can open a website and sell on the internet. I have both a small retail shop and a website. Very common for locals to purchase and pay online and let me know they will pick it up in person. I have "local pick up" as an option.
I also ship worldwide. Anybody with something to sell can do the same. Easy peasy.
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posted on
04/12/2011 2:40:36 PM PDT
by
Valpal1
("No clever arrangement of bad eggs ever made a good omelet." ~ C.S. Lewis)
To: GreaterSwiss
fairTheres that word again..It's been wafting from Dem pieholes the last week or so more than usual.
To: GreaterSwiss
Insane. I live in a rural area. The things I order I can't get locally and I pay shipping and handling. Damn, will this never stop?!
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posted on
04/12/2011 2:52:40 PM PDT
by
ladyvet
( I would rather have Incitatus then the asses that are in congress today.)
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