???? You dont really believe most people send in tax forms for internet purchases. Stop making stuff up.
No, but we were specifically talking at that point about federal income tax. YOu claimed that if the government didn’t know what you made, NO-ONE would pay their federal income tax, and I’m saying that for the most part, maybe because they are scared, most people do try to get their federal tax forms accurate. There is no “use tax” on that form.
But I could be wrong. MAybe everybody is like Tim Geithner, cheating on their taxes. I remember that conservatives were very upset about his being a tax cheat, along with some other liberals who were found to not have reported all their income. I remember conservatives were very critical of Bill Clinton for overclaiming his charitable contributions.
So it would seem odd if conservatives were now arguing that Tim Geithner just did what EVERYBODY, including ever conservative, would do. I don’t think so, but we are becoming a lawless nation.
I have consistently said that nobody pays the “use tax”. Most people have no idea it exists. Even though it is on their income tax form, they don’t know what it means, and just blindly say “0” and move on.
I would like to believe that if every conservative was fully educated about the use tax, that a majority would pay the tax, because conservatives believe in the rule of law, even laws that cost them money.
Moreso, I believe that if conservatives were fully educated, they would join together and change the laws. That’s what I would really like to see.
But most people are ignorant in this area, which is why in every thread about internet sales people argue that there is some “new tax” that was never before imposed, when every sales tax state already imposes the “use tax”, and the “federal internet sales tax” is really a COLLECTION law, not a tax law.