Posted on 01/14/2018 9:15:09 AM PST by Olog-hai
Start a thread about eliminating social security. I doubt you’ll be surprised with the number of posters that support their brand of socialism.
I’ve seen that before. Medicare also. The country survived without either for a very long time.
It’s like the Brits who try to argue against the abolition of NHS. It all rings hollow.
Almost right. I think they’re obligated to collect sales tax in states where they have a physical presence, but they also collect tax on items they sell (ships from and sold by Amazon), in states that have an internet sales tax. If it’s a third party seller, they’re not obligated to collect sales tax for that seller.
In 2016, SCOTUS allowed Colorado’s Amazon tax to stand. Online retailers can either collect sales tax or keep records of customers’ purchases and file reports on each customer at the end of the year, along with providing the customers with tax reports if they’ve spent over $500.
At no time did Amazon not have some physical location. The idea that their products somehow magically materialized off the internet is nonsense.
From the very beginning all products purchased on-line should have either been taxed based on the buyer's location or the location of Amazon's HQ or distribution centers.
Governments looked the other way because the poor little internet was so fwagile (or they were getting bribes ... er political contributions ... from poor little internet companies).
The same thing happened with Napster. It was always a copyright infringement for people to download songs for free from the internet. Just because the government chose not to enforce the law for a long time didn't mean it was legal or ethical.
Likewise speeding laws which are generally poorly enforced. Likewise federal laws against marijuana that have gone unenforced for years.
Sales taxes may be a bad idea, as well as copyright laws, and the federal laws against marijuana distribution but they should be faced head on, and not evaded by scofflaws.
If the government were more draconian about enforcing the laws on the books, then more people would rise up to ask for smaller government. States are now just recently revising their marijuana laws because the feds did ramp up the war on drugs to mostly ill effect resulting in a backlash.
We need to stop falling for the pseudo-hipster arguments that allow internet-based products and services to be treated differently than brick-and-mortar-based products and services. Uber and Lyft should have to follow the same regulations and taxation as taxi services. AirBnB should have to follow the same regulations as hotels.
The hope is that rather than overregulating and overtaxing the internet, the government will be forced to ratchet down the regulation on everything else.
Don;t forget municipal sales taxes too.
A denial of certiorari in the Supreme Court does not set a precedent. In the new case, the Supreme Court could easily announce a holding and reasoning that reaches a contrary conclusion based on the unique administrative burden imposed on online retailers.
Money, money, money, money.
Good to know.
This is the DNC way of undoing the tax cuts - just tax something else.
That is giving the nod to big government, ultimately; no hipsters ever present such an argument against big government. When you ratchet up the regulation and taxation on the competition to these overregulated “brick and mortar” legacy services, the regulation is never, ever going to be ratcheted down on anything. Reagan’s philosophy on taxation showed that the government’s precious tax revenue goes up when all businesses’ taxes go down, due to increased commerce being encouraged by the prices going down.
We need to stop falling for the pseudo-hipster arguments that allow internet-based products and services to be treated differently [from] brick-and-mortar-based products and services. Uber and Lyft should have to follow the same regulations and taxation as taxi services. AirBnB should have to follow the same regulations as hotels. …
What state are you in?
I’m just telling you how it is determined whether or not a seller has to charge sales tax. You raised a whole other issue, which is an issue regarding monopolistic practices.
Agree.
I think Amazon decided to just charge sales taxes everywhere whether they had a presence or not to keep the Fed’s off their neck.
I now make all big dollar purchases from other outlets that continue to be tax free, or if not possible will purchase at brick and mortar and demand they match Amazon’s price and provide free delivery.
New Judge blocks that.
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