Posted on 09/06/2011 9:49:54 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
To hear him tell it on the presidential campaign trail, Gov. Rick Perry has never met a tax increase he liked.
But at home, over a political career that reaches back to the oil price shocks of the 1980s, Perry has embraced billions of dollars worth of them — including a $528 million tax hike approved in 1990, after he defected to the Republican Party.
The biggest tax increases came early in his career, before anyone used the phrase “Tea Party” to describe a potent political movement. But a few weeks ago, Perry also signed into law an online sales tax measure the state says will raise $60 million over the next five years. Grover Norquist’s influential organization, Americans for Tax Reform, calls the measure a dreaded “new tax.”
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Either the facts of the story are true or they are not.
The more info the better.
You will never get through to the muslim/illegal lovers here who support this fraud ricardo hussein perrynista Tempest. You can try but good luck.
Thanks for the added info.
We know how it works. The Bronze Titan explained how it works: His supporters are gonna have to play “Whack-A-Mole’ to defend all the canards that’ll be coming up.
Canards like you saying Rick Perry was funded by Bilderberg, or that he is responsible for a tax increase because he signed the special session legislation which included a misguided attempt to collect the taxes legally owed on internet sales.
We get to smack down all sorts of canards these days.
He is weak by some measures on immigration policy. But I have no doubt that under a President Perry, border security will be a top priority. He knows it is a federal job, and as President he will make sure the feds do their job.
BTW, don’t get me started in internet sales tax. I think it is sad how many good conservatives think it is OK to cheat on their taxes if they can get away with it, and how many excuses they can give as to why they shouldn’t really have to pay sales tax on something they buy in another state and have shipped to their home.
All the while, the companies who set up shop in the state, and employ them and their neighbors, are put at a disadvantage because they are legally required to collect the sales tax for purchases.
As are internet companies who happen to have business in the state — which again favors companies who purposely move their physical business out of state. Amazon and Barnes & Noble can sell the same book to the same person, but B&N has the additional cost of collecting the sales tax, while Amazon can offer it “tax free”, which makes the price look smaller, so long as the person who buys the book then cheats on their taxes.
Texas has a sale tax, because you actually need money to run a government and provide necessary services, and they don’t have income tax. The sales tax could actually be lower if the people buying over the internet didn’t cheat on their taxes, forcing their neighbors to pay higher taxes to make up for the revenue lost to the tax cheats.
That is why I favor a federal law enabling states to collect sales tax on out-of-state purchases shipped into the state, equal to the sales tax the same person would pay within the state, with exclusions and limitations for companies that do such small sales that the burden would be overwhelming. I don’t favore the method Texas used.
I liked what Perry was pushing — Amazon would come out in the open with their state operations, and would create jobs and help the economy, and then after 4 or so years would start collecting sales tax, so there wouldn’t be a big lawsuit.
It is too bad the legislature wouldn’t go for that plan, and forced the online sales tax change into the special session omnibus legislation.
Wow! spoken like a true lefty. I suppose if Perry doesn't get the nomination you're going to vote for Obama your other true love.
It is a fact he and his supporters are illegals and muslin lovers....but a queer also? Have anything to back that up? I have heard the homo stories about senor ricardo hussein perrynista but they are just ‘stories’....aren’t they? He does not look fag to me, far from it.
Sorry, I thought I was posting to someone else. It’s a joke, well maybe.
Palin is a quitter, and she didn't send back the Bridge to Nowhere funds, but she has her excuses as well, right?
Welcome to JimRob’s new FR.
You live in California, if your freeper page is to be believed.
Under California law, if you buy anything from Amazon, you are required to file a “use tax” on the purchase, and pay the sales tax owed that Amazon did not collect.
If a person does not pay this tax, they are a tax cheat — like Tim Geithner and the other lefties who cheat on their taxes. That’s just a fact of life.
You may hate your state’s sales tax, but it is a legal tax, and people of the state are required by law to pay it even if it isn’t collected for them by the merchant.
If your state decides to pass a law which makes it harder for you to cheat on your sales tax, it isn’t a new tax. It’s enforcing the existing tax code.
Now, how saying that people should pay the taxes they are legally required to pay is a “true lefty” position is beyond me. And explaining the facts is not a lefty position either, but rejecting them because you don’t like them certainly is.
You can create your own reality, if you are a leftie. Conservatives live in the real world, where sale tax is legally required to be paid on purchases out-of-state that are shipped into the state for use by residents of the state.
It’s not conservative to ignore the facts, or to cheat on taxes.
If you need me to, I can provide you with the links to the relevant portions of California tax code. I’ve studied this issue in some detail.
To summarize: Enforcing collection of a tax legally due is not a new tax. Perry opposed the measure and vetoed it. He signed an omnibus bill that contained mostly things that were good and required for Texas, and had no way to reject the online sales tax collection measure added to the bill.
If someone, knowing those facts, wants to blame Perry for this, they are free to do so. But calling me a lefty for pointing out the facts isn’t really a refutation.
The Palin Hit Squad continues their unfounded attacks on Rick Perry.
You people make the mainstream media proud.
According to your lack of logic, if I make a purchase out of state I owe MY state a sales tax.
I physically make a out of state purchase...no tax.
I make a out of state purchase while sitting at home, I owe a tax?
How does my physical presence change anything?
BTW, it's a "sales tax" not a purchase tax.
Let’s fight for the win with a candidate capable of running the Oval Office, not one that might skip town in 2 years if the kitchen gets too hot.
I don’t know about California’s use tax, but I’m familiar with Oklahoma’s. We’re required to pay a use tax equal to the sales tax on out of state purchases that are not for resale. The tax applies to both individuals and businesses. Oklahoma makes collection of the tax easy. A section on the annual income tax form allows individuals to either pay an estimated use tax, a small percent of income, or list and pay a precise amount.
I think the compliance rate for businesses is greater, because they keep records of their merchandise transactions, like invoices. With individuals, it’s more difficult. Without probable cause and a warrant, how can government prove an individual purchased something from Amazon.com? Nevertheless, we are legally and morally obliged to pay.
As for use taxes in general, I’m torn between in-state businesses and internet sales. It is very difficult for in-state businesses to remain competitive against internet-based businesses for this reason. Use and sales taxes distort the market. Some merchandise would be better marketed in-state while other items are more viable for internet sales. Use and sales taxes help skew the market toward the internet, even though that may not always be the most efficient way to do business.
lewislynn: “Hey, when it come to taxes you’re one sick tax loving dude.”
I’m sure he’s capable of defending himself, but I’m going to defend CharlesWayneCT. Can you point out where he said he loved taxes? As far as I can tell, he’s only reporting the facts.
Here’s from the Oklahoma Tax Commission:
“Every state with a sales tax has a companion tax for purchases made outside the state. In Oklahoma, that tax is called “use tax”. If you have purchased items for use in Oklahoma from retailers who do not collect Oklahoma sales tax, you owe Oklahoma Use Tax on those items. Individuals in Oklahoma are responsible for paying use tax on their out-of-state purchases.”
Note they didn’t say mail order transactions. The Oklahoma use tax also applies to buying something out of state (in person) in order to bring it back into Oklahoma for use.
I bet CharlesWayneCT doesn’t like taxes any more than I do, but we DO have a moral and legal obligation to pay them. Personally? I think tax rates are way too high, and government, especially the federal government, is doing way more than it should. That doesn’t make tax avoidance right. Don’t like it? Get the tax laws changed.
Don’t like it? Get the tax laws changed.Use tax,how convenient for you.
It would be much easier to do if people like you and CharlesWayneCT would stop defending them.Can you point out where he said he loved taxes?
Yea, both of you did it in your own (so many) words.
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