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End of Tax Free Internet shopping may be near
ZDNet ^
| Apr 16, 2009 5:23:59 AM
| By Declan McCullagh CNET News
Posted on 04/16/2009 9:09:31 AM PDT by Snoopers-868th
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Figures, more taxes.
To: Snoopers-868th
I bought online from B&H photo and saved a pretty good chunk of change.
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posted on
04/16/2009 9:11:03 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: Snoopers-868th
They are desperate..They are trying to find every way they can to *Stick* it to the American people..
What’s next..Tax Garage Sales?
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posted on
04/16/2009 9:12:40 AM PDT
by
TaraP
(The RAPTURE: Separation of Church and State)
To: cripplecreek
Yea, and they want to take this away also. I am sick of being taxed to death. Looks like the internet will be the next area of revenue for this pigs.
To: Snoopers-868th
Taxes are bad — but, just hitting local retailers with them is even worse. Why should the likes of Amazon be (in effect) subsidized, at the expense of local businesses?
To: Snoopers-868th
They have been threatening to do this for years.. They don't dare...
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posted on
04/16/2009 9:14:16 AM PDT
by
divine_moment_of_facts
("Hey Liberals.. We don't lower our standards, so up yours!" - Andrew Wilkow show)
To: Snoopers-868th
I must be doing something wrong. I always have to pay taxes on my internet purchases.
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posted on
04/16/2009 9:14:58 AM PDT
by
Sig Sauer P220
(We have our own pirates. They're called politicians.)
To: Snoopers-868th
We told people that this would be the coming thing when they started collecting state back taxes on online cigarette purchases.
Lo and behold.
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posted on
04/16/2009 9:15:46 AM PDT
by
Just another Joe
(Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
Why should local businesses be punished for locating in your town?
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posted on
04/16/2009 9:15:48 AM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 86 of our national holiday from reality.)
To: Snoopers-868th
the more greedy the government gets, the more people it shoves over to the tea partiers.
their avarice is our net gain.
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posted on
04/16/2009 9:15:55 AM PDT
by
camle
(keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
To: divine_moment_of_facts
Oh, they will do it. They just can’t stand to have anyone get away with no taxes besides those businesses need some more paperwork to do.
To: Snoopers-868th
I don’t have a problem really paying Idaho sales tax if I buy something on Amazon. Technically we are supposed to declare purchases like that and pay sales tax anyways, it’s just that nobody ever does.
I’m gonna have a big problem if I have to pay California sales tax if the company I buy from is in California.
Gonna have a bigger problem if it’s a national online sales tax that is separate from State sales tax so I get dinged on the income of that money, the sale, and the sale again.
Biggest problem with all this though is it will shut down many online stores as after taxes and shipping it will be cheaper to walk into a store and buy the product, if it’s even available locally.
Good for local stores, but it’s going to be the small mom and pop websites or part time ebayers that get hit, not companies like Amazon.
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posted on
04/16/2009 9:16:36 AM PDT
by
Domandred
(Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.)
To: null and void
That’s a good way of putting it.
To: TaraP
What’s next..Tax Garage Sales?They have "Permits" in many cities......
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posted on
04/16/2009 9:16:47 AM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators. -Will Rogers)
To: Sig Sauer P220
That is because you buy from businesses that have a location in your state.
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA; All
Why should we prop up local business?? What is so special about them?
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posted on
04/16/2009 9:17:15 AM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(No one should question our "Dear Leader"!)
To: Snoopers-868th
They argue that reduced sales tax revenue threatens budgets for schools and police, and say that, as a matter of fairness, online retailers should be forced to collect the same taxes that brick-and-mortar retailers do.
Fairness my behind! They are so full of crap.. Have the Tea Party's not sunk into their thick heads yet?
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posted on
04/16/2009 9:17:21 AM PDT
by
divine_moment_of_facts
("Hey Liberals.. We don't lower our standards, so up yours!" - Andrew Wilkow show)
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
Thank you.
The power to tax is the power to destroy.
Congress’ mantra is “What shall we destroy today?”
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posted on
04/16/2009 9:18:41 AM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 86 of our national holiday from reality.)
To: divine_moment_of_facts; All
doesn’t matter much, really.
Pretty soon we will all be so poor and unemployed that we won’t have the money or the credit to buy anything over the internet.
sarc?
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posted on
04/16/2009 9:19:16 AM PDT
by
jacquej
To: Snoopers-868th
“A bill expected to be introduced in the U.S. Congress”
Shipping charges make up for sales taxes.
Lead is heavy, Senator Blowhard.
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posted on
04/16/2009 9:19:16 AM PDT
by
tumblindice
(I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.)
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