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They aren't "unpaid taxes."
They are "unsustainable spending."
I got a news flash for the states wanting more revenue. QUIT spending more than you take in you idiots!
all this will do is force the companies to base themselves offshore and the money they make will be kept in foreign banks.
brilliant
you tax that which you wish to discourage. smoking. gasoline. business. internet.
brilliant
It is NOT their Money!!Hands OFF.
“With sales tax revenue slumping more than 30 percent in most states between 2007 and 2010, lawmakers across the country are grasping for ways to collect those unpaid taxes.”
What “unpaid taxes?” Couldn’t it simply be that these states have lost residents, so their current population is not spending as much? That is what is applicable in my state. Or it could be that the cost of goods is increasing so the amount of goods bought is decreasing....
I love it when governments and reporters assume that the behaviour of the citizenry is static.
I always laugh a little when I see the word “lawmakers”. They are no such thing. They create crime where none used to exist through legislation. These “lawmakers” are nothing but highwaymen keeping a lookout for the less travelled roads used to circumvent the commerce bandits.
And what will these same states do when collecting Internet taxes don't close the budget hole?
Bottom line - in the future, starting today and going out for decades, the various taxing authorities are going to have to cut $ 5.00 for every $ 1.00 in new taxes to stay where they are - broke and with bills to pay. If they want to “close the budget hole” they are going to have to cut 7 to 8 dollars for every new tax dollar.
And the odds of this happening are?
Can you say Greece or Spain or Italy?
sfl
States should look to cutting “gifts to those who don’t work”
Just what we need: more taxes, higher taxes, more fees, higher fees. :(:(:(:(:(:(
The internet tax is the major hikes in postal rates for packages since the dawn of ebay. They also have increased the delivery times from priority being 2pounds 2ounces 2days GUARANTEED to “maybe it’ll get there in 2-3 days typically if it isn’t lost...”
Government spending has increased!
So far, not a penny has been collected from any of these bills. Companies like Amazon and others at which they were aimed never had real physical presence in these states.
These bills tried to pretend that any “affiliate” web site that received a commission for forwarding a link to Amazon or other actual business was a “physical” presence.
Amazon and the others promptly responded by firing all of their affiliates in these states. As a consequence, several thousand small businesses either folded or moved to other states. The net effect was substantial revenue loss by all of the states that passed these bills.
BARF!
Having shut down every other form of commerce...the BOrg are now going to finish things off.