Posted on 01/19/2011 11:30:58 AM PST by 92nina
The budget introduced by Gov. Jerry Brown last week has been a hot topic of discussion in the Golden State and nationally. And while Brown is calling for $12 billion in higher annual income, sales, and car taxes, legislative Democrats are now jumping into the fray and proposing their own ill-advised tax hikes.
Among the most misguided of proposals coming out of the Democrat caucus is Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner’s Amazon tax legislation, reintroduced just yesterday, that would illegally require out-of-state businesses to collect California’s highest-in-the-nation sales tax. Make no mistake, this new tax, commonly referred to as the “Amazon tax,” is a guaranteed job killer that wouldn’t even make a dent in California’s budget deficit.
Perennial attempts to pass this job-killing tax on e-commerce have been rightfully rejected in California and elsewhere. Aside from failing to address the real problem – overspending – and adding to the state’s 12% unemployment rate, an unconstitutional Amazon tax wouldn’t do squat to close the state deficit, estimated at $26.4 billion over the next 18 months...
Read more: http://www.atr.org/amazon-tax-rears-ugly-head-california-a5775#ixzz1BVhBkd3b
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Some States, like Colorado, appear to be getting info from Amazon at the end of the year to match with the returns.
Reference here:
http://tinyurl.com/6h3vq2b
This is GREAT news, I am sure many at Amazon are socialists as are amny users, and as such they deserve what they get.
The sneering Commies in California who will be poorer, as well as the zealous Reds at Amazon who will lose jobs, as a result of this governmental money grab, will be happy anyway, right?
Right?
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