Posted on 01/06/2009 2:06:51 AM PST by GQuagmire
Governor Deval Patrick is pushing lawmakers to expand the state's ability to collect sales tax on products sold over the Internet, which could add millions of dollars in revenue each year and alleviate a severe budget crisis.
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Ack. I’m so sick of being a “revenue source” for pig politicians.
“Try an across the board, 25% cut in government spending”
How dare you suggest that Government should have to tighten its belt. How DARE you sir!
“Last fall I was listening to Worcester talk radio with some central-Mass politician guest-hosting.”
Worcester is one of the finest examples of bad government. Except for Coney Island hotdog, Vincent’s and the Worcester Sharks... The city should be bulldozed!
Nope, the Rat governors pushing this idea know that the day is coming soon when the only way you'll be able to get most nonperishables is over the Internet. I went out last week to find an extra window clip and car power adapter for the GPS unit my lady gave me the month before, and you just cannot find what you need unless you go online.
I expect anywhere between a third and a half of the retail outlets that we started 2008 with will be gone before the 2010 midterm elections. Online sales will be the only thing left to hit sales tax with in the near future.
I'm sure this idiot Delahunt would like to ban New Hampshire too.
I’m no geek and this may sound silly but couldn’t the purveyor of goods move off-shore and cut the government out entirely? How could it be policed?
Time after time we prove that Gov can not tax and spend their way into net revenue gains. Cut taxes gain revenue tried and true. You just can’t fix STUPID. Amen.
I am going to hate to disappoint you guys.
In most states that collect sales tax, sales tax is also collected on shipping and handling. So your totals are calculated this way, your merchadise + shipping x your local sales tax rate = your order totals.
Retailers that physical plant in every state, such as JCPenney, Target, and Wal-Mart have to charge the sales tax on items ordered from the interent.
All USA government has become too big. They are killing us. Repubs and Democrats are all in cahoots. VARMINTS!
Amazon collects sales tax for NYS. Does that count?
It should be an article of faith by now that government has an insatiable appetite for “revenue”. They have emptied the bottomless economic cornucopia that was once the American Dream. They are now digging around in the pockets of the taxpayers and will continue to do so until there is nothing left but lint.
Our retirement funds will be emptied and our inheritances will be confiscated. The national infrastructure whose construction our tax dollars paid for will be sold off to private interests. We will be taxed for being too fat, for being too skinny, for driving and for walking. I will not be surprised if we are ultimately taxed for personal oxygen consumption.
There is no plan or philosophy on the part of government any more, no sense of civic responsibility. It is just plain avarice. Politics and overnment are no longer a public service, they now represent a lucrative business career. Raise your children to become politicians; it will be their only hope of survival.
Are you sure that is true? I know Amazon was contesting the law and ended their affliate program with NYers to esacpe any claims of “employees” in NY.
“Coupe” Deval is simply B. Hussein Obama’s Mini-Me.
Worcester is one of the finest examples of bad government. Except for Coney Island hotdog, Vincent’s and the Worcester Sharks... The city should be bulldozed!The scary thing is how many of the state's AGs come out of the Worc. Co. justice system. And the (temporary?) head of BATFE(ces) Sullivan ALSO out of Mass/Worcester. *spit*
And Lefty Murray the LT Gov.
When Deval leaves to join the Barak Admin., Lefty will be your new Gov.
He will make Jane Swift look like Churchillian!
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