Posted on 04/25/2013 5:55:21 AM PDT by sickoflibs
WASHINGTON (AP) — You don't see this very often: a majority of Senate Republicans voting to make people who buy stuff on the Internet pay state and local sales taxes.
The Senate could vote as early as Thursday on a bill to empower states to require online retailers to collect state and local sales taxes for purchases made over the Internet. Under the bill, the sales taxes would be sent to the states where a shopper lives.
On Wednesday, the bill passed a test vote in the Senate, 74 to 23, with 27 Republicans voting in favor. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., vowed to pass the bill this week, before senators leave for a scheduled vacation.
"This is a matter of equity and fairness," said South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard, a Republican. "The same people who are selling the same products should be paying the same taxes."
Under current law, states can only require stores to collect sales taxes if the store has a physical presence in the state. As a result, many online sales are essentially tax-free, giving Internet retailers an advantage over brick-and-mortar stores.
It is part of GOP orthodoxy to oppose higher taxes, a central issue that divides Democrats and Republicans. That's why the bill faces an uncertain fate in the House, where some Republicans regard it as a tax increase.
But supporters of the bill insist it is not a tax increase. Instead, they say, the bill merely provides states with a mechanism to enforce current taxes.
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Both houses of congress seem to be composed nearly 100% of Democrats. I don’t think that’s ever happened before.
Don’t worry, Obama will veto. He PROMISED “not one dime” of anyone’s taxes making less than $250,000 would go up.
And the Republicans are punks for doing this. Idiots.
Do you know how sick I am of the words “equity and fairness?”
Hey Gov Doofus. We’re not your ATM!!
Cut it out!!!!!
Actually, businesses really support this bill. They are tired of losing sales to the Internet.
catalog sales never were considered a “threat” to brick and mortars or local sales taxes.
Congresscritters are slime.
However, they are only mid-level slime.
The real slime lives in (infests?) the White House.
Pure slime there.
My brother is a screaming liberal DNC hack. His Facebook page is like a DNC fax machine. I finally had to block him.
He opposes this bill because he makes all his money off Internet banner ads. The worm gets to turn.
Someone remind me why the Republicans have a lock on the House in 2014 and are poised to regain the Senate.
I’m still waiting for the gubmint to collect an import duty on million dollar software that is coded by East Asians in India and then smuggled via the internet wires into the United States without paying import duty on the manufactured product.
My job was off-shored because of billion dollar marxists like Bill Gates watering down the salary in my field.
(Actually, businesses really support this bill. They are tired of losing sales to the Internet.)
You are right. It’s too bad that consumers don’t ever seem to be represented by anybody in Congress.
Here's a thought rino, if you want everybody to pay the same, abolish sales taxes.
Oh, you say you can't do that because it would be interfering with the state's right to tax? Apply the same logic to making them tax.
???
They support amnesty and path to citizenship for illegals too to get the $$$ w new workers in the nearer term, and they don't care that longer term those same new voters will vote for Dems to crush them.
Their interests are not
Behind the rhetoric most republicans are not much different than democrats when it comes to big government, taxes and the Nanny State.
The real difference is how they go about it.
Democrats stare you in the face, tell you they are going to take more of your money, and then do it every chance they get.
Republicans stare you in the face, tell you they believe in lower taxes at the same time they are doing a reach-around to clean out your wallet.
My brother is a screaming liberal DNC hack. His Facebook page is like a DNC fax machine. I finally had to block him.
He opposes this bill because he makes all his money off Internet banner ads. The worm gets to turn.
Take that knife that has been thrust in his back and give it a twist, and then twist it again, the dumbass deserves it for voting for these people...
My brother is a screaming liberal DNC hack. His Facebook page is like a DNC fax machine. I finally had to block him.
He opposes this bill because he makes all his money off Internet banner ads. The worm gets to turn.
Call him an “Anti-Tax TeaBagger” over and over again in front of his friends on facebook, MAKE HIM THINK ABOUT IT TOO!
We live in the country..don’t drive much..the Internet has been a real blessing for shopping. BUT..the shipping has gotten higher..now that they are going to tax too..might as well go to the city and buy.
Glad no one in this family is a shop hound.
Now I’d go for that. We have a small off-shore contingent and my first goal as a new manager was to move that back home. I get 2 home devs for the 4 offshore ones. Such crap.
How can a revenue producing bill originate in the Senate?
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