Posted on 08/16/2017 4:03:29 AM PDT by SMGFan
Amazon is doing great damage to tax paying retailers. Towns, cities and states throughout the U.S. are being hurt - many jobs being lost!
“...Anyone else wondering what going to happen once Sears... go under?...”
Our local Sears is closing and it was a major anchor store for the local mall for decades. Many jobs are being lost.
I am wondering what will happen to the retail jobs and I am concerned that Amazon is becoming a behemoth monopoly. Bezos has accrued way too much leftist power with his personal blog, the Washington Compost.
I am a person who hates mall shopping, however I can see that Amazon’s concentration of power into leftist liberal hands is very dangerous.
A long time ago, a company started selling, well, everything via catalog. Up to an including houses.
The local dry goods stores hated them, and brought political pressure to bear on them, for “stealing” their business.
That company was Sears and Roebuck.
Eventually, regulation, competition, and better local selection drove them down from the lofty heights they enjoyed for many decades. Amazon will not be top dog forever.
I read it’s about $1.60 per package. F’ing ridiculous.
But then again, look who’s running the USPS.
Mostly indolent people work for them.
One of my biggest pet peeves at brick and mortar stores is the hard sell at the cash register for the store card or the extended warranty. Kohl’s is a big offender. It’s bad enough they always seem to have just three cashiers with about seven registers closed. But they gum up the works with their store card pitches when there are 15 people in line behind you who just want to pay for their things and get the hell out of there. Brutal.
Reminds me of Radio Shack, when they insisted on collecting your mailing address on a longhand form every time you went there, even if you were just buying batteries.
Went through the same thing.
Got the Kohls credit card to get immediate discounts but that wasn't enough.
They held me up on another visit to sign me up for a discount points club where they get our email and phone ##, that was another 10 minutes.(at grocery stores it takes about 2 minutes to sign up)
Next time shopping I forgot what phone number I gave them (they give out no card with this ) and so they wanted to hold up the line again to sign me up again.
I told the clerk to just drop it.
I still get the spam emails. Its all about them selling your email and phone number.
Sorry I didnt say no the first time.
I was imagining the great long box being beyond the length limits of UPS or USPS and then laughed when I considered the delivery by Drone.
Your screed about TV is just stupid...... cutting off your nose to spite your face. Besides, Comcast is the worst villain
It’s an inflatable paddle board.
And we stream with access to far more than any of those packages.
The there is the tax on inventory, and then there is cost of the vaoue of the goods, and the place to store it, and the people man the counter.
the 20% carry cost, includes all of those “overhead” items as well. The tax on the goods themselves as a percentage of value is 8.5% of the marked up value.
Example: in Idaho and New Mexico (both places I've lived), the law states that if you buy something from out of state, and have it shipped to you for your personal use, and if sales tax was not collected by the seller on that item, you owe and are required to pay sales tax.
It's only the companies with a physical presence in your state who are required to collect it from you (order from Sears or Walmart on line and they'll collect). It is not Amazon who is in the wrong, it's the consumers who are buying these items, and then not complying with the laws of their states.
You are correct regarding "sales" tax, but most, if not all, states with a sales tax also have an accompanying use tax for this very purpose. That use tax would apply to those things shipped to the consumer from out of state and used/consumed by the consumer. Under the use tax, the consumer is the one responsible for paying the tax to the state, not the seller.
read a bit about Bezos, employee treatment, his leftist totalitarian proclivities...evil.
Most states that have a sales tax also have a use tax that does require the consumer of the item to pay an equivalent tax in the item if purchased from out of state. Why do you think states want consumer information from these internet retailers?
The first part of your statement is in place. It's the second that has not been done.
Federal law is not in play here. It would be state law that requires it. There is no federal law of any kind regarding state sales taxes or the levying/collection thereof.
Amazon is a horizontally integrated tax avoidance scheme.
I’m an ebay shopper too. I just like it better than Amazon and for most stuff I’m helping support some person’s small business.
Pard, I am NOT defending Bezos. I’m defending his business model. Only thing I’d have problems with are special tax breaks and subsidies. If Amazon is getting those, then POTUS should target his mad-on there.
Color me thick, then, cuz that wasn’t my takeaway from the tweet. But what you suggest makes way more sense given Trump’s business acumen.
Today its call a MEDIA MOMENT.
Ahh...
That makes it easy to see. I have seen those at the boat ramp and they are pretty neat
Right. A “use tax” is almost completely unenforceable by the jurisdiction that imposes it, because there’s no way to prove that the person who buys an item from out of state is actually going to use it himself.
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