Feds to Decide What Can be Sold at Your Garage Sale

Publius' Forum ^ | 5/29/09 | Warner Todd Huston

[Mobile Vulgus]

Outrageous government intrusion in our lives.

[Paladin2]

JBT full employment act.

[Buckeye McFrog]

wait until they show up trying to collect a VAT tax...

[GeronL]

how long before they tax garage sales?

[Zeppelin]

wait until they show up trying to collect a VAT tax...

a Value Added Tax tax???

I'm reporting that one to the Department of Redundancy Department.

[theBuckwheat]

They already have already laid the groundwork to make sure you report income from your eBay sales. For the present, at least, the reporting limit is too high to bother most people, but just wait.

[scooter2]

Welcome to the USSA.

[Paladin2]

Well, the left used to always refer to Amerika. Maybe its time (the revolution) has come.

[Andy from Beaverton]

Where am I to find another set of lawn darts?

[Russ]

"how long before they tax gagarge sales?"

Where I live you have to go to the township office and pay for a permit to have a yard/garage sale. In my world that's just a tax by another name.

[OneWingedShark]

How long before we tar-and-feather these ‘people’?
...or shoot them, that’s another, more permanent, solution.

[DonaldC]

That article isn’t clear...what exactly is the gov wanting to limit the sale of at garage sales? If it is to limit sales of items that cannot be sold at stores, like used mattresses or dangerous cribs, wore out car seats, or something like that, then I don’t have a problem with it.

[ctdonath2]

If vigorously enforced, this act will have a devastating effect on certain collectible markets like old toys, books, comic books and vintage clothing collectors.

Despite what most people remember of it, the scary part of "1984" wasn't that Big Brother was watching, it was that history - and evidence thereof - was being rewritten to current political standards.

[TxAg1981]

you are already taxed on garage sale items. you are supposed to claim that income on your 1040.
welcome to Amerika

[FreedomNotSafety]

So we really do need the government to protect us from ourselves. If I want to buy an old mattress from my neighbor at his garage sale, of what business is that of yours? Why would you encourage this type of intrusion?

[DonaldC]

If it is illegal for a business to do so, why should garage sales be exempted?

[MinuteGal]

Hey, man!

I think you're on the wrong forum.

Leni

[petercooper]

[MinuteGal]

After garage sales, can lemonade stands be far behind?

After all, the nutty Acorn socialists demand "a level playing field for all" in this country as they lavishly distribute our tax dollars to whomever they please.

Leni

[tacticalogic]

That article isn’t clear...what exactly is the gov wanting to limit the sale of at garage sales? If it is to limit sales of items that cannot be sold at stores, like used mattresses or dangerous cribs, wore out car seats, or something like that, then I don’t have a problem with it.

Under what enumerated power do you think the federal government has the authority to do this?