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To: Comparative Advantage
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.

90 posted on 04/17/2009 11:20:52 PM PDT by logician2u
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To: logician2u; Mikey

Article I.

Section 9.

Clause 5. No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.

Clause 10. No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing its inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State in Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Control of the Congress.


93 posted on 04/18/2009 1:02:56 AM PDT by lainie (The US congress is full to the brim of absolutely disgusting thieves who deserve humiliating ouster.)
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