Posted on 03/25/2024 8:49:01 AM PDT by conservativesister
Maryland House Bill 1515 will tax all services!!! Call a plumber, painter, electrician, real estate, etc. Add 5% Call your representatives and tell them to vote NO Another reason not to live in MD
How did this southern state become such a rat wasteland
Proximity to the infectious DC Swamp.
We been taxed on services in TX for decades, I think.
That makes sense. Virginia has a lot more rural offset, that helps but not enough
and add a 5% fee, 10% if they actually DO anything.
Actually this was bound to happen. I am sure it will spread to more states. The sales tax was first placed on tangible goods. But as an economy grows and develops, intangible goods, i.e. services usually grows much faster than goods.
So the tangible goods sector of the economy becomes smaller in percentage terms than services.
As governments at all levels have “crying needs” for more taxes, it become clear that services will be taxed as well!
"Maryland House House Bill 1515 will tax all services!!!"
As a side note to this thread please consider the following.
Given that Maryland is trying to increase its revenues like all the rest of the states probably are, Maryland should do the following.
Maryland should team up with pro-secessionist Texas to lead the states to put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes, such taxes facilitated by abuse of the long arm of the 16th Amendment, taxes that Congress cannot reasonably justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, by doing the following.
"16th Amendment : The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived [emphasis added], without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
“ If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
"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.
From the congressional record:
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
Maryland and Texas need to lead ALL the states to effectively “secede” from the unconstitutionally big federal government by repealing the 16th (16A direct taxes) and 17th (17A; popular voting for federal senators) Amendments (16&17A);
Once 16&17A are repealed, thus eliminating the unconstitutional middleman, the unconstitutionally big federal government, from "helping" the states to manage their revenues, the states will ultimately find a tsunami of new revenues (imo) that they can use to increase police, fireman and teacher salaries, repair and build new infrastructure for starters for example.
And if the repeal amendment was strictly limited to repealing 16&17A, probably little or ideally no discussion needed before ratifying such an amendment.
In fact I challenge the states to ratify repeal amendment as fast as Pelosi scandalously (imo) rammed unconstitutional Obamacare through the House.
Note that a Constitutional Convention can be avoided if patriots elect as many federal lawmakers as they can in 2024, likewise 2026 midterm elections, who fully support proposing an amendment strictly limited to repealing 16&17A to the states.
Then no more personal income tax!
Two things are inevitable, death and taxes, just not in that order. Then the tagline kicks in.
The big guy only gets 5%? Is Hunter available?
THAT also requires more bookkeeping on the part of the service supplier.
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