 USA, so it'd be pretty hypocritical to try it). Collect at the destination instead? Could work - but you either have to do it on the honour system, rely on retailers to hand your local authority their entire sales receipts so they can comb through looking for transactions that need tax collected (not going to happen) or apply it at the border - which doesn't really work in places like the USA where goods don't pass through customs agents getting from A to B.
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No, really. Of what concern of mine is the health of Best Buy?
The only benefit of Best Buy is that it gives an easy way for the states to collect sales taxes from you. So without Best Buy, the tax revenue drops as more people shop online. But, tax revenue shouldn't decline if people were all fine upstanding citizens that paid their Use Tax. But of course, no one does.
I think we should eliminate sales taxes entirely and raise the income taxes.
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They are not giving Amazon a pass. The tax is still due, but Amazon doesn't have to collect it. You have to pay it. They can't make Amazon collect it because Amazon is not under their jurisdiction.
Further, I think that the state should not be allowed to force retailers to collect the tax either. The retailers don't get to keep that money. They have to forw
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It's not a "pass" for amazon. EVERY purchase you buy from amazon or any other retailer, you are required to pay 6, 7, or 8% tax. Either sales for local business or use tax for out-of-state.
The fact that you choose not to pay your use tax to your state is not Amazon's problem, and not their responsibility to fix. It is yours. You (and your fellow residents) are tax dodgers for claiming $0.00 use tax on your return.
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So consumers are criminals, while laws benefiting sales at some companies over others are defended. Your unquestioning acceptance of the status quo is interesting.
Well, hell! (Score:2)
(Fires up GPS app)
Where did they toss it?
Gid Rid of All Sales Taxes (Score: (Score:2)
A) Find me one adult who doesn't realize they pay a sales tax. IN a state that has a sales tax, obviously.
SO, at best, your initial premise is a straw man, at worst, just stupid.
B) No, it's actually the less on each one.
C) Any taxpayer can find out exactly what they are doing with the money. It is not hidden. Don't confuse your 'Too lazy to actually look' with 'No one knows what they do with the money."
You're post has made you look stupid AND lazy.
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Income and capital gains taxes don't complicate and impede commerce?
Yes, that is correct. They complicate and impede other things.
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"Sales taxes are regressive, they discourage commerce,"
false.
", and they incentivize cities to put up big-box stores, "
false
"With so many advantages of property taxes over sales taxes,"
Your conclusion is, well... stupid.
Property tax and sales tax are different things, and each has value different from the other.
Sales tax is applied to all people, usually not on 'needed' items. All people pay them.
.Property taxes have less of an impact on low end apts dwellers. Because it's on the property, not on per livin
Oh! Oh! Oh! Wassup Colorado? (Score:2)
Amazon calls for a federal online tax (Score:2)
because they know it can not happen. They want to appear 'fair' when in fact they are cheap bastards who won't spend a tiny amount of money to ensure states get there legally mandate tax from in state people purchasing goods.
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Bad Arguments (Score:3)
One is because the state gov'ts are losing revenue. To this one, I would argue that it is too vague which state should get that revenue anyway -- if I live in Indiana, work in michigan, and order something from Amazon (based in WA), then which state should the tax revenue go to? Does it matter if I am sitting at work in Michigan when I order it? Does it matter where I ship it to? or where my bank is?
The other argument is "not having to collect sales tax gives internet companies like Amazon an unfair market advantage." To this one I would say that the argument should not be about sales tax as long as I can buy the same cable for $2 + $4 shipping ($6 total) from Amazon as I can buy for $25 + tax from Walmart, Best Buy, Target, or whatever other brick & mortar store you can think of. The prices are often much cheaper *before* taxes are considered. I think these brick & mortar stores need to figure out how to adapt their models to the changing market rather than try to get gov'ts to legislate against their competitors.
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TRUE (Score:2)
Therefore impose a SHIPPING TAX on all the companies which MUST operate inside the state to deliver those items! No way of getting around that (without overhead costs.) The massive logistics shipping companies do makes dealing with a state's "import" tax extremely easy for them to implement by comparison.
What about local business? They are exempt; so is freight shipping. Sure some clever business might form to import products then ship them to people somehow illegally... Well, maybe the loophole might b
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Amen Brother (Score:2)
"Use" tax (Score:2)
Last year Oklahoma implemented a "use" tax. Basically, you are required by law to declare any online purchases made from retailers who do not collect state sales tax. The fact that this law is completely unenforceable did not deter the state legislature from passing it.
Most cities have sales taxes too. I wonder when cities will start trying to get on the bandwagon?
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I forgot to mention that you are required to declare this on your state income tax form.
Meanwhile, Oklahoma is considering getting rid of state income tax, soooooo
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While it is true that Amazon must pay interchange fees, it is almost a certainty that it is figured into their pricing structure (since you cannot pay with cash). Besides, most business find that paying CC fees is less costly than processing bad checks.
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Some stores/gas stations give a 5 or 10 cent discount if you pay with cash (instead of credit). I wish more stores would do that. [house.gov]
âOverall budget cost of Dodd-Frank through FY 2012: $1,251,578,000
âNumber of government positions created (projected for 2012): 2,849
âAnnual labor hours required to comply with just the 10% of Dodd-Frank rules that have been issued so far: 2,260,631
âNumber of Americans who will hav
Do you work for Goldman-Sachs? (Score:5, Informative)
The Republicans want to repeal the bill because it IS bad [house.gov]. It may have one part that is good in there but mostly it just benefits really big banks or companies, and imposes WAY too many regulations on businesses (that again benefit larger companies because they have staff that can handle stupid overhead like that).
I mean, if you are all for benefitting large companies that is fine, but most people would like to see government support for them reduced and Dodd/Frank are KINGS of supporting large companies through government graft.
You incomprehension is indefensible (Score:2)
No, it is not bad. They do however continue to us it in their lie that the economy isn't getting better.
Ask all the people out of work how well the economy is growing.
Or just try to use your brain for one second and imagine the continued effects of high energy prices will have on and economy that is in even a weak recovery (even though I doubt very much it's as good as that).
So it benefits and hurts business.?
Here is the key part where you reveal that you are simply too ignorant to speak on the matter.
YES Y
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>>>Who was against it? The Republicans.
Note: Both parties suck ass.
I plan to vote for neither Obama or Romney.
That said if you're going to play this tit-for-that game, it was the Democrats that repealed Glass-Steagall, a Democrat HUD secretary (under clinton) who changed the rules so literally anybody could buy a house even if they couldn't afford it (the source of the bubble/crash), and the Democrats who rammed-through the TARP banker bailouts even as most Republicans opposed it. (It failed to
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