Obama enthusiastically supports higher taxes -- this time on your purchases online

Now that I read it more thoroughly, the article refers to purchase tax - a direct tax on the consumer. I think that is even worse. Again, states have the ability to lower or eliminate sales tax to give their local business the same so-called advantage that Amazon has.

And before the internet, people bought things through the mail or by courier.

 

It is a bill allowing states to collect taxes from vendors selling within their state in which they have not phyiscal presence. There is no taxation against other states.

Use tax exists everywhere sales tax exists.

 

You are just now realizing that sales tax is a tax on the consumer and not the seller?

They did, but on a much smaller scale.

 

No, sales tax arises from the selling of something (i.e. Amazon). Purchase taxes arise from the buying of something (i.e. my grandmother).

Smaller scale? Oil produced in Texas has been traded in New York longer than internet. In fact, New York has been a market place for the commodities produced outside its borders for a very long time.

 

Quit trolling

 

From tex's article:

Trolling?

 

Or dumb

 

Ad hominem attacks usually indicate frustration, I am out.

 

Meh, if you're against paying an internet sales tax, feel free to fill this out to send a letter to your congressmen.

http://www.ebayinternetsalestax.com/ist/step1_b.asp

 

Sales taxes are and always have been a tax paid by the consumer. For simplicity purposes, it's collected by the business - but it's a tax the consumer pays. That's why, on your federal income tax return, sales tax you paid is a personal deduction. Sales tax is not a revenue and expense deduction for a business - the business is simply the pass-thru entity.

 

Capitalism and democracy...what a combo.

Contributions from groups supporting this bill were 40x larger than contributions from groups opposing it