Texans to pay Sales Tax to Amazon

I'm fairly certain Amazon was already required to collect sales tax in some states, and they are a global company anyhow ... Texas is only a small dent in their business. Personally, I will still shop with them and I'm sure plenty of others will too. In other words, short selling them over this is probably not wise.

 

Oop! Time to boycott Amazon then and screw you Texans agreeing to this ****z. 2500 new jobs in Texas, really? Lies...

 

Probably the same amount of jobs we lost when they pulled out of the issue the first time.

 

I hope not for their sake, not sure what they would have that Circuit City, Blockbuster, Hollywood Video, Sam Goody, Borders, Service Merchandise or Montgomery Ward's Electric Avenue didn't. If anything I'd want them to start scooping up shipping companies, or at least hurt Netflix enough to get Hastings fired.

 

Considering a state income tax = interracial atheist child p*rn to most Texas Republicans, and they have a near lock on state offices; I really can't fault their bureaucrats for finding new revenue streams. I say that as a liberal and two years cable-free Amazon digital down-loader.

 

Mario Joyner sure has aged well. Man, that Half-Hour Comedy Hour was something else back in the day.

 

You have to think about it in terms of opportunity cost. If Amazon has a better distribution system than companies with a "physical presence," and "all the jobs that come with that," it costs less to distribute those goods to people, which lowers prices and allows people to find work in areas of the economy where there are shortgages of labor. All this does is take away the opportunities that arise from more efficient and cheaper distribution. If the world you postulated was reality, we'd all be able to make our living digging ditches for our clients who fill them back in with the coinciding piles of dirt, not ever really producing any surplus or improvement to society and the human condition.

 

Shoe is dropping in two days. Get your big purchases in now!

 

I didn't see this thread before. Wow. I do a ton of shopping on amazon and this completely blows. A number of their products will still be cheaper but retail stores just gained a fighting chance in Texas.

I've been looking at speakers for about 5 months is it justifiable to purchase them now since I'll be getting a tax break for a couple days?

 

This won't change my shopping habits much. Prime shipping delivered to my door and low prices still trump going to the store for me.

Other stores are falling in line. I buy dog food on Wag.com and they're charging sales tax now too.

 

Typical modern American mentality - take it up the butt. Oh geez, gas prices are really high, oh wells, let me fill her up. The fight is dead. We've been immobilized by reality television and mopey family sitcoms.

 

Texas wouldn't need the extra tax revenue if we'd simply deport the illegals living here.

 

Just like Alabama.

 

Bump. Buy everything today.

 

I just saw this...damn, so much for my Prime membership.

 

Camera lens buying bonanza for me today.

 

thanks for the reminder, just snagged a couple items that i was on the fence about

yay, reckless spending of disposable income

 

Yep, the status of so many prime memberships went from renew to cancel in TX today.

 

I literally just walked outside to find my last tax-free amazon order