[Comparative Advantage]

I'll be contacting my congressmen about this on Monday. These creeps need to stay out of my wallet.

[Mikey]



"The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both."

James Dale Davidson

"Anyone may so arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible. He is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes."

Judge Learned Hand

“...every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.”

Auberon Herbert

"Once Confucius was walking on the mountains and he came across a woman weeping by a grave. He asked the woman what here sorrow was, and she replied, "We are a family of hunters. My father was eaten by a tiger. My husband was bitten by a tiger and died. And now my only son!" "Why don't you move down and live in the valley? Why do you continue to live up here?" asked Confucius. And the woman replied, "But sir, there are no tax collectors here!" Confucius added to his disciples, "You see, a bad government is more to be feared than tigers."

Lin Yutang

"The taxpayer -- that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination."

Ronald Reagan

"The collection of any taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to the public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them. The only constitutional tax is the tax which ministers to public necessity. The property of the country belongs to the people of the country. Their title is absolute. They do not support any privileged class; they do not need to maintain great military forces; they ought not to be burdened with a great array of public employees. They are not required to make any contribution to Government expenditures except that which they voluntarily assess upon themselves through the action of their own representatives. Whenever taxes become burdensome a remedy can be applied by the people; but if they do not act for themselves, no one can be very successful in acting for them."

Calvin Coolidge, Inaugural address, March 4, 1925

"The power to tax is the power to destroy."

Daniel Webster (1782–1852)

[KoRn]

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[metmom]

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.

Overspending threatens budgets for schools and police.

[sten]

nice... that won’t impact the little guy. oh wait...

meanwhile, looks like its time to move that web based business to the bahamas.

[3catsanadog]

The Democrat Congress and President are like rabid dogs salivating over any and every thing they can get their tax grabbing canine teeth into.

[dennisw]

This will kill NewEgg
Half the reason to buy there is no sales tax

Next the 0bamatrons will be pawing through EBAY and making sure all sales taxes are collected

[Secret Agent Man]

Private internet sales won’t be affected. Everyone who can will migrate over to craigslist.

[Bobalu]

I buy computer items from China..from time to time..many times the item costs a penny and the shipping is ten dollars.

So will I pay tax on the penny????

The item is actually worth maybe 6 to 8 dollars...many vendors do this. I used to think it was some sort of stupid trick...but I came to realize it must have something to do with taxation/duty charges.

So, sell your item on the net for say...a dollar, and charge the rest to shipping/handling...customer pays tax on the dollar?

[KarenMarie]

While filing taxes.... NJ already demands you to declare anything bought out of state where no NJ taxes were paid.

[LibWhacker]

What’s yours is theirs. People wouldn’t be so darned upset if they’d just stop and reflect on that truth. Busting your back at work? Relax, it’s not your back. It belongs to the democraps. Be thankful they let you use it and don’t charge you for it! /s

[voveo]

Here is what you do.
Let’s say you want to sell music cd’s. You set up a non-profit organization to raise money for charities.
You let you customers choose the charity of their choice and after they donate a fee, ie the cost of the cd, we donate a minor portion to the charity and they get to pick the cd of their choice as a free gift.

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

Businesses should raise hell about this. As it stands now, I never buy from Internet merchants that charge sales tax unless they also give me free shipping. I’ll be darned if I’ll pay tax AND shipping when I can go to the mall five minutes from my house. The main reason I shop on the Internet anyway is because I can do it at midnight in my jammies!

[PLMerite]

“...eliminating what its supporters view as a “loophole”...”

Isn’t it amazing that anything which favors the People is a “loophole” ?

[PLMerite]

“...won’t pay sales taxes at checkout time that they would if shopping at a local mall.”

Right. I’ll just get in my 14mpg SUV and *drive* to the mall, and I’ll let the bitch sit there and idle for a while, too.

The reduced fuel usage and economy of scale of shipping ought to be good enough reason to excuse the sales tax if these idiots were really concerned about “global effing warming.”

Damn, I hate politicians.

[logician2u]

Californians buying books from Amazon.com or cameras from Manhattan's B&H Photo, for example, won't pay sales taxes at checkout time that they would if shopping at a local mall.

No $hit, $herlock.

And furthermore, Californians don't pay for Amazon.com's police and fire protection or the education of Amazon's and B&H's little children.

Not to mention, workers at Amazon and B&H don't contribute very much to the wear and tear on California's worn and torn highways (except when they travel there on vacation, and then they have to pay California's exhorbitant fuel tax) or, certainly, to the crime statistics. California spends a large portion of its tax revenues keeping an increasing number of its population behind bars, too, but is that something that Amazon and B&H are in any way responsible for?

Face it, you liberal pukes, the sales tax was meant to provide the funds for gummit services to those within the sales tax area. It was never meant as a catch-all way to balance the commercial scales so local businesses could compete with those in other states or countries. That's what a tariff eventually evolved to: protection, not funding government operations.

If the Congress passes this monstrosity, we can only hope the Supreme Court will come to its senses long enough to rule it in violation of the interstate commerce clause.

[PizzaDriver]

I'd be happy IF I could select from the TAX for
1]my State, or
2] the State that I'm sending the stuff to, or
3] the State that is Home for the seller.

[bamahead]

Libertarian ping! Click here to get added or here to be removed or post a message here!

[Perdogg]

It has in Virginia.

[FreedomPoster]

Amazon doesn’t have nexus in California?

I’d be really surprised at that.

[webschooner]

Does anyone know if when this law passes, will companies be able to get around it by locating outside the country, in Canada, Mexico, or anywhere offshore?