Re: Cost often considered pre-tax
"Given this fact, imagine that we have the Jeff Bezos tax scam shop (a.k.a. Amazon.com). They don't make you pay the tax. Naturally you will be willing to give most of your savings to Mr. Bezos, since...
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"Someday we might clean out all the corruptness in Washington when all the old farts die off and this next generation puts people in office that pays attention to the will of the people." --nice...
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*mean moment* Here in MI, we do have the Use Tax exactly as post #2 mentioned. Its stupid, just like Dean Baker. */mean moment*
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It is not that easy... In Iowa, the sales tax is by county and city (a city can cross county lines). How many web sites have visited that asked for your county? ZIP Code gets close doing the job, but...
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_____________ Wrong. Sales taxes are a tax on the 'seller'. If sellers could so easily have charged their buyers another 6-8% in product pricing (sales-tax equivalent price increase) -- they would...
View ArticleDoes anyone here understand sales tax?
Amazon is already paying all the taxes that they would even if they were to collect sales taxes. These include property taxes, income taxes on retained profits and believe it or not, anything that they...
View ArticleComplicated Taxation
As Rick stated above, simplification of taxes in the States would benefit them overall. But Dean, are you only against Amazon.com or all online/mail order type businesses that don't feel compelled to...
View ArticleSales Tax Ruling
The States took a big Mail order office supply company to Court. About 20 of the states jumped on the bandwagon. It went all the way to the US Supreme court. The Supreme court said it was way beyond...
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I just love to see people defending tax scams. (For the record, states differ on what they subject to sales tax [the point that the boys and girls at Amazon whine about], but I would be fairly certain...
View ArticleRe: Tax arbitrage
If I get exempted from a fee that everyone else has to pay, this is a subsidy. And Amazon is getting a subsidy in the states that have sales taxes, since they do not have to pay the tax, by virtue of...
View ArticleRe: Fair.
Let's not be holier than thou here. I have four kids and probably contribute more to government, net, than you do, and will certainly be doing so when my kids are paying for the Social Security you'll...
View ArticleTax Fairness
To charge a tax is a part of life to support our government. To charge an unfair tax or double taxation is a crime against the consumer. One of my pet peeves is the taxation on gambling winnings. The...
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. Sales taxes can only be legally (Constitutionally) applied & enforced within the 'legal jurisdiction' of the taxing authority. A 'taxing authority' has zero legal right to operate outside its...
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"And, guess what, Amazon benefits from the police and fire service too, because no one would order from Amazon if they thought that people could hijack the UPS trucks delivering their stuff and steal...
View ArticleTaxes
Taxes are simply unjust. If the government were an animal, wouldn't we group it it by feeding method? It feeds the same way that leeches, mosquitoes, ticks, and hookworms do. Maybe it's really just...
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If I get exempted from a fee that everyone else has to pay, this is a subsidy. And Amazon is getting a subsidy in the states that have sales taxes, since they do not have to pay the tax, by virtue of...
View ArticleRe: Taxes
I'm the Anon guy up above, anyway. Putting aside the fact that we're not a democracy. We already tax outside our jurisdiction, often. Currently we are taxing Iraq's oil reserves to help drum up and...
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Slogan or not, "no taxation without representation" is still valid. How do you expect democracy to work if you are subject to laws you don't even get to vote on? How do you expect taxing authorities to...
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"No taxation without representation" was a party line really Michael. It was a slogan that sounded nice. The real reason had nothing really to do with representation. It was the fact that import goods...
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