Fair.
Here's how I see it. I buy a lot of stuff online. I enjoy not having to pay taxes. I do not have children. People with children use more government resources than I ever have or will AND they get tax...
View ArticleUse Tax Anyone?
Here in Michigan we have a 6% use tax. 6% being the same percentage as our sales tax. If a Michigander buys any item that would be covered under sales tax online and the online retailer does NOT charge...
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I don't like paying taxes any more than anyone else; but lets get real about the difficulty for online retailers. Cheap, effective software will make it simple enough. My business uses it now. In...
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Why does the news media need to run to college campuses to talk to these idiots? These professors can't run a business. They have no idea what it's like in the real world. Mail order businesses have...
View ArticleRe: Anonymous Coward
Do you claim to deal with retail customers in more than 40 different states and hundreds of different municipalities across the entire United States in your business? You are incorrect if you think...
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"Amazon uses few if any services from state or local governments in Missouri, so it's hard to see anything unfair about the fact that it doesn't have to collect sales taxes here." - The argument is a...
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I'm confused *Professors*, why are you talking about college professors? Is it because the guy's name was "Dean Baker??" I guess running that business of yours hasn't taught you how to read terribly...
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Another issue -- "no taxation without representation!" A business in a city that overtaxes can always threaten to move. It's employees can lobby that city, or vote in its elections. Same at the state...
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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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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...
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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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 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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"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...
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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...
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...
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 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...
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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 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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