great. now we’ll have to order overseas or black market to avoid their grasping hands.
Are these people brain dead or something (I know, they are democrats so of course they are brain dead). They want to kill all e-commerce.
Its never freaking enough for these bums.
Feds taxing on behalf of States. Hmmm. Call me skeptical.
Won’t pass the House, so nothing to worry about...unless someone tells Boehner that we have to vote for it or the country will die. He falls for that a lot.
How is it that politicians can be soooooo stupid? I can make do with everything I have. I'll fix what breaks, sew what tears, yard sale my kids clothing needs, and cook every meal. We have a house with a pool and we decided a while ago, that was our vacation, infinitum.
We played a great game today helping my son with his spelling words for school. You get it wrong you get thrown in the pool. He got to ask me any word he could come up with and if I got it wrong, he got to push me in the pool too.
The next game for my son will be an economic one. It will be how to live on no or minimal purchases.
Can't we have any good thing in life without Fed.gov taking a s**t on it?
I owe my state about $80 in sales tax for my online purchases this year (on about $1800 in purchases). On a per-person basis, this isn’t a big deal, especially since most people were paying these sales taxes before they started buying things online.
If people don’t like the idea of sales taxes, they should fight to get their state to remove sales taxes. If people think the sales tax is a good way to raise revenue, then they should support collecting the sales tax fairly across all purchases, rather than letting on-line purchasers get off scot-free while the rest of the citizens of the state carry their load for them.
I’m all for cutting tax burdens, but it should be done by law, not by making it easy for SOME people to cheat on their taxes at the expense of more law-abiding citizens who pay their taxes that the law requires, including the “use tax” for online purchases.
We know there are a bunch of crappy (i.e Democrat, lib, etc) estimators out there. Every such estimate I've seen falls way short of reality. But legislators and reality -- you have to look no further than Kalifornia to see the disconnect.
As soon as you milk that cow, it will be a far smaller cow, that’s the one certain thing.
Ethically one might make a case of the obligation of “use tax” after the purchase, but not many people pay it and the states are like the Three Stooges when it comes to competently going after these taxes, even after the major credit card companies agreed to roll over. And then there are categories of items and different sales tax brackets — Durbin is contemplating a logistical nightmare.
Drubin’s state (IL) just raised their state income tax to unprecedented levels, to the point that Caterpillar is considering moving to a more business friendly state.
News flash for Durbin: the Democrat-controlled Senate does not control taxes.
They should really consider taxing stupidity.
Insanity is increasingly defined in terms of those tying to sell the Federal, State and Local budget deficits as lack of taxation.
Quite simply...the Federal, state and local legislatures are fiscally incontinent.
Insanity is increasingly defined in terms of those trying to sell the Federal, State and Local budget deficits as lack of taxation.
Quite simply...the Federal, state and local legislatures are fiscally incontinent.