Posted on 11/11/2014 11:38:14 AM PST by CivilWarBrewing
House Speaker John Boehner has stuck an Internet sales tax proposal in a drawer and he doesn't intend to dust it off before the end of the Christmas shopping season if he considers it at all.
The Marketplace Fairness Act, passed last year in the Senate, would allow each state to force out-of-state online retailers to collect sales taxes from its residents.
But a Boehner spokesman said late Monday in a statement that the plan isn't going anywhere.
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I forgot this </sarcasm>
I guess.
We do not need the feds to collect state taxes. As a matter of fact the states already collect state taxes, they have a lot of experience in the matter.
Priebus should be shouting and explaining this from the rooftops, not taking tea with Debbie Wasserman Schultz again. Thank you John Boehner! This is good.
Many states insist on your paying a use tax which is nothing more nor less than a SECOND tax on your income.
First they tax your gross income and then they take a bigger bite of what you have left to spend.
In Indiana the state income tax is relatively modest but the sales tax of 7% effectively increase the state’s take to about !0% of one’s gross.The federal government also takes about 10%.THEN you get to pay real estate taxes to your county.
For persons who work for a modest wage and “own” a home taxes eat up probably half the earnings.
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