Classic definition of a conservative is a liberal who got mugged and survived. Don’t get between a liberal and his wallet...
Republicans living up to low-tax promises win the support of Democrat businessmen. There’s a lesson here.
They’re just backing the winning horse. When fortunes change they will cut checks for liberals.
Oops!
How unpatriotic of them!/s
This is nothing but which side of the fence is greener. This week it’s the right. Next week, after a little fertilizer spread around, it’ll be back to the left.
(rolls eyes)
48K is chump change to an outfit the size of Costco.
How much did they pay for the (Federal) Senate sets?
It will still be a leftist corporation of course.
Just switching to the other end of the Uniparty temporarily
You beat me to posting this article from my home turf. We have some acquaintances who own the largest liquor store in the area and are really ticked off about the 17% tax also. I don’t drink but occasionally go in to buy a diet Ginger Ale.
... to eliminate a 17 percent licensefeetax on retailers selling liquor to restaurants.
There! Fixed it.
With all due respect to mom and pop, please consider the following. As a consequence of the parents of Costco's executives not making sure that their children were taught about the federal government's constitutionally limited powers and associated limits on Congress's power to lay taxes, unless the 17 percent license tax indicated above involves interstate trade, therefore falling under Congress's Commerce Clause powers, then the feds have no constitutional authority to lay such a tax imo.
Here's what the Supreme Court has said about such cases in general.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
So for those liquor sales for which the indicated federal tax is being applied to intrastate sales, then once again corrupt federal lawmakers are laughing all the way to the bank to deposit corporate bribes that they accepted to make loopholes in federal laws which they actually had no constitutional authority to make in the first place.
Are we having fun yet?
With the exception of 1992, Costco by far donates primarily to Democrats, with Republicans receiving about 4% of their donations. Doesn’t appear that they are just opportunist donators, but quite the progressive organization.
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/totals.php?id=D000000703&cycle=2014