stop being greedy amazon, pay your taxes, you support higher taxes after all, being a democrat run company
I guess lowering their competition’s taxes to match would be “unfair” /s
Gotta think big brick and mortar stores like Macy’s are behind this too. Amazon with lower prices and better selection kills them. If people had to pay taxes and it pretty much evened out the cost, people might start shopping in malls more again. I haven’t been to a shopping mall in years. Have probably spent $10,000 in the last few years on items like clothes and shoes and such I would have went to the mall for.
They keep running the stupidist commercial (during Rush!) here in PA – Some dire voice tries to get people to call their congress-creature and complain about Amazon not paying “their fair share” (where, of course, if they collected sales taxes all that would happen is WE would be paying more and our useless government would rake in MORE of our money for doing absolutely nothing except demanding it). Their justification for this, laughably, is that Amazon “getting away” with this is hurting local business, who consequently aren’t paying LOCAL taxes from sales, and consequently it’s hurting... you got it, OUR CHILDREN because schools just aren’t getting enough money.
Boy, the BS meter sure went red on THAT one.
So... what’s next... if Amazon sells a DVD for $9.99 that Joe and Mary’s CD emporium charges $18.99 for, is that “unfair”, too?
Really. These !@(*#’s won’t stop until we’re a communist country AND our economy is completely destroyed... all in the name of “fairness.”
A friend of mine was a regional manager for Wal-Mart and told me that they actually kept pictures of their competition on a bulletin board and crossed them out as they drove them out of business. Then they would increase prices. They work just like drug pushers, and when you are hooked, they close the local store to make you travel further to go to a regional superstore!
The biggest problem in the last 20 years is lack of enforcement of antitrust legislation that is already on the books.
Amazon, like Walmart and Sam's Club, sold the books to the public cheaper than the publishers would sell them to us. I have heard horror stories from publishers who were put out of business by Amazon & Wal-Mart. They would place huge book orders and get 90 day dating on the invoice, with full credit on returns. As the 90 grace period was expiring, they would place a second order as though they were replenishing stock, (this too with 90 day dating). And then return most of the first order for credit against the first invoice so they didn't have to pay it. This really screwed up the publishing industry and put many of them out of business.
Amazon screwed investors when they started by capitalizing marketing expenses as they gained market share by selling their books at or below their cost. Thus they showed phony profits to make their stock go up.
I apologize in advance if this is a stupid question: what is to stop the individual states from getting a court order to view customer information - then sending tax bills to the customers in their state? Complete with added fines, for not paying when you were supposed to?