Cruz Slams GOP Colleagues Who'd Pass Internet Tax Act

Direct Marketing News ^ | November 07, 2014 | Al Urbanski

[SoConPubbie]

"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[SoConPubbie]

Ted Cruz Ping!

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[GraceG]

Such Hubris in the DC Establishment that everytime a penny passes from one person’s hand to another that they are ALWAYS ENTITLED to some of it....

Give them HELL Ted!

Run Ted, Run them OUT OF DC!

[MaxMax]

America didn't put the Repubs n power to be Democrats!@

Kick their ass' Cruz!

[so_real]

I'd be okay with an Internet sales tax ... as long as it walked hand-in-hand with a Flat Tax or Fair Tax replacement of the income tax code. Short of that, it would be a non-starter for me too. Our problems do not stem from a lack of tax dollars -- in fact that is the source of most of our problems. The government does not need an additional revenue stream.

[Christie at the beach]

I have never seen a liberal from either party who didn’t like to increase taxes to or make a new tax. It definitely would discourage the mom and pop stores to remain. The liberals are control freaks and want a hand in someone’s pockets. I agree with Ted Cruz on this.

[TangledUpInBlue]

I hate to say this, because I know this will likely be unpopular, but the MFA isn’t a new tax. This is not a new “tax on internet sales”. This is simply a way to collect taxes that are already due - this is a mechanism - nothing else.

When you purchase something online and the seller does not charge you sales tax, that’s because they’re not required to by law. But that doesn’t change the fact that the sale is taxable in your home state. YOU, the buyer are required to self assess and pay Use tax on purchases you make of this nature. Unless the item is exempt. It’s up to the buyer to know the law.

This scheme was put into place in the early 1990s and is vested in the Constitution and a littany of SCOTUS cases (most notable Quill Corp. vs. North Dakota) The problem now is that when these cases were handed down, there was no internet. Sales models were very different then. It’s very easy to do business in a state now without establishing “nexus” which is the requirement for a seller to collect and remit sales taxes. In the internet age, we need a new way of defining “nexus” and that will likely come with a SCOTUS case at some point.

Remember, sellers are “doing you a favor” by collecting sales taxes and remitting on your behalf. Just because they don’t does not change the underlying taxable transaction.

States are beginning to audit this aggressively. it’s always been done at the corporate level, but now individuals are being scrutinized. My business pays 3 times more use tax to our home state than we do sales tax. It’s nothing new.

[Dick Bachert]

With SOME exceptions conspicuous by their rarity (Cruz, Lee and a handful of others) looks like the Beltway establishment Pubbies have once again hit the ground CRAWLING. Can GROVELING be far behind?
THE CAPITOL SWITCHBOARD IS 202-224-3121!
Put it in your speed dial as I suspect we’ll be using it a lot over the next few years and beyond.
WHY?
Here’s why:
“Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; if it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.” — Judge Learned Hand, 1944
It’s worth the call just to experience the WORST “Music on Hold” system in the known universe!
(Ya suppose they’re trying to economize? LOL)

[corkoman]

Senator Cruz correctly points-out a major issue in all this: COMPLIANCE. Its not just collecting and forwarding the tax revenue. It is the effort needed to SHOW you are in compliance with complex tax codes - that is expensive.

That is one principled man.

[Dick Bachert]

With SOME exceptions conspicuous by their rarity (Cruz, Lee and a handful of others) looks like the Beltway establishment Pubbies have once again hit the ground CRAWLING. Can GROVELING be far behind?
THE CAPITOL SWITCHBOARD IS 202-224-3121!
Put it in your speed dial as I suspect we’ll be using it a lot over the next few years and beyond.
WHY?
Here’s why:
“Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; if it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.” — Judge Learned Hand, 1944
It’s worth the call just to experience the WORST “Music on Hold” system in the known universe!
(Ya suppose they’re trying to economize? LOL)

[samtheman]

I’m going to vote for Cruz every chance I get.

[Christie at the beach]

And, once they get this. There comes another government

agency to collect the taxes. More government employees.

Where would it end.

[GeronL]

No more taxes!

The RINO’s never ever learn

[GeronL]

we don’t need the federal government involved in local and state sales tax issues.

[TangledUpInBlue]

See my post above

[Gene Eric]

>> Where would it end.

Not Well wherever that might be.

[GeronL]

see my post above your last post too

[TangledUpInBlue]

We will if it elevates to the SCOTUS. When you have disputes at the state level with various and conflicting outcomes, that’s what you’ll get.

And I don’t think the compliance would be very difficult. My company operates in all 50 states. It takes my staff person about 2 hours per month to file 40+ sales tax returns. It’s all automated. It’s all done online.

[TangledUpInBlue]

This could get tricky :)

[SoConPubbie]

And I don’t think the compliance would be very difficult. My company operates in all 50 states. It takes my staff person about 2 hours per month to file 40+ sales tax returns. It’s all automated. It’s all done online.

So?

Does that make it right?

Is it a proper function or role of government?