Majority of states pressing for taxing all Internet sales

9news.com ^ | 6/3/2005 | Paror Farer,

[olde north church]

DENVER - 9News has learned that 43 states have joined together in a coalition to collect sales tax on all Internet purchases.

You already pay sales tax when you go online to buy from an established business like Eddie Bauer or Wal-Mart. But a lot of small Internet businesses and individual transactions float under the radar.

[muawiyah]

If we have 49 states agree to tax internet sales, that 1 last state that doesn't agree will, by default, get 100% of the internet sales.

One does hope they have gentle winters.

[agitator]

Politicians are tax junkies. "Just one more tax, only one more tax...."

[mewzilla]

Okay, who's got the bat signal for the Sons of Liberty?

[jimbergin]

or the Caribbean, or Bermuda, etc. Although, they have managed to shut down cigarette sales from overseas.

[LostInBayport]

Typical politicians. Rather than restrain or reexamine their spending, just look for another vein to tap.

Nothing like having the government come in and kill a marketplace. I've done a good deal of my shopping via the internet due to the reduced prices, convienience and lack of TAXES.

Citizens for Limited Taxation up here in Massachusetts is fighting a bill related to internet sales taxes...I can just see the argument of the proponents..."it's for the chilllldrenn..." They can't honor the income tax rollback that voters passed in 1989, but will be more than happy to add a new sales tax. This with an estimated BILLION dollar surplus for the fiscal year.

Parasites.

[muawiyah]

They've gotta' be in the same trading zone, namely the one called USA, to escape the tax stuff. I'm just hopeing I can set up shop in a place with pleasant winters.

[shellshocked]

Government is on a death spiral. One reason for it is their inability to control their spending and our resulting taxation. Our days are numbered.

[olde north church]

If I'm not mistaken, I recall Rush stating something about states being in surpluses for the first time in years.
I know as conservatives "we don't do these things" we simply prefer to grumble in the back of the room, perhaps it's time to take a page from the whacko handbook and do a strike on a seemingly harmless product that the state makes a mint taxing and don't buy it for a day. Make it something that can't be made up on the next day.
Oh yeah, and if you have info on a state congressman/senator/governor in a compromising position. Please share it with all of us. Photoshop's welcome! They don't care how they !#ck with us, I say, let's return the favor!

[D Rider]

You already pay sales tax when you go online to buy from an established business like Eddie Bauer or Wal-Mart.

And we sure don't want to give small businesses the 5-8 percent margin they need to compete with Walmart, do we?

[oblomov]

So if 50 states agree, and laws are passed to allow collection of the tax, doesn't this mean that all of the internet businesses will simply incorporate in Bermuda or Monaco or whatnot? These states have no clue about basic economics.

[olde north church]

I believe that ol' Tree of Liberty is in serious need of feeding.

[JCEccles]

I've never understood the the pro-tax logic that the more we bludgeon the goose, the more golden eggs we get.

[DumpsterDiver]

that 1 last state that doesn't agree will, by default, get 100% of the internet sales.

How does Colorado sound?

Colorado Governor Bill Owens says he doesn't like the idea and that Colorado won't be part of it.

Here's something you don't read everyday:

"We're getting lots of taxes in terms of income taxes and other taxes because of the rise of the Internet, we shouldn't tax sales over the Internet," said Owens.

[Wolfie]

Rather than restrain or reexamine their spending, just look for another vein to tap.

It's not like the voters are teaching them otherwise.

[Bernard]

Actually, they have managed to cut down domestic cigarette sales. The overseas operations don't have the same problem yet.

[Gabz]

Although, they have managed to shut down cigarette sales from overseas.

They've basically shut down cigarette sales in the US as well.

[oblomov]

Fortunately people will still desire to improve their lot in life regardless of government idiocy. Any regime that stands in the way of this will eventually collapse.

[jimbergin]

my nephew who always got his from overseas says they are shut down. and when I tried to find some still working it was not easy to do. My nephew now goes to an Indian Reservation in Northwest PA to get his.

[William Terrell]

The states are very cash strapped and hungry, even ravenous. Methinks its because of all the expenditures of a welfare and social nature.

"Socialism has to work. We just haven't tried it with the world's resources yet." Text of a scream heard during electroshock therapy.