Posted on 11/11/2014 11:38:14 AM PST by CivilWarBrewing
I slam him regularly so I will step up and say ‘thank you’ when he does something right. So “Thank you” John. you did this one right.
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I suspected all of Congress will start moving in the Right direction once we took control of the Senate.
A few have principles, most want to move in the direction of the tide. We will see more and more of this.
The trick will be to assign proper credit for policy like this once it starts bearing fruit.
When Republicans voted in Mississippi and Kentucky, they didn’t elect Thad Cochrane or Mitch McConnell, they elected Ted Cruz.
I’m hoping Kasich doesn’t do that sort of thing. He’s been lowering taxes in fact. But, who knows.
we should send him emails thanking him
so what is his email?
lol
Well technically it would be enforcing taxes already on the books.
Good job by the GOP. I cut my Amazon spending by 98 percent when they started charging sales tax in AZ. Almost never visit their site anymore.
Wow, a clear example of a good thing!
First time I recall that in years.
BINGO
Enjoy it! We were tax-free until this year. I still buy a lot of stuff though, we’ve had Prime for years now. I realize they are on the FR “boycott” list but I don’t care.
Some is collected, I pay mine in Virginia. When I first moved here many years ago I paid it and my lib neighbor told me nobody pays it. Later I had a debate about paying it with a Freeper (whose name I have forgotten) and lost. My argument was Constitutional but turned out to be incorrect. The next year I paid extra to make up for my nonpayments and I have paid it since.
I wonder how far that tax goes. For instance, last week I was in Florida. I purchased a few things; but the sales tax is less than that in Ohio. Technically, i’m supposed to declare the difference, and pay it. That is totally unenforceable of course.
I stopped dealing with Amazon when they revealed my Discover Card cash back allowance information. Back room deal between the two that I the customer never authorized.
No account no more.
George, you’re on FR.
That’s means you have NO secrets.
But to me that’s liberating....
The accounting issue is just a small part of the problem. Once you collect and forward sales tax to a state, that state will then expect you to report and pay every quarter from then on. They have to streamline the whole process and not put the business on the legal hook, just because they had a sale one quarter to North Dakota.
Amazon closes down shop in America. Moves operations to China. I imagine Washington and the States have been told this.
Until the time they determine you are a threat to the system. That's when the enforcement happens. Remember the quote from "Atlas Shrugged":
“Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power and we mean it... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with.”
I've done online retailing. All of this is easily automated, including the EFTS.
Of course, you’ll still owe the sales tax on that TV. It just won’t be collected by the company selling you the TV, so you’ll have to pay it yourself.
Which does mean that it will be much easier for you to cheat on your taxes, since it is very hard for your state to figure out that you made a purchase and didn’t pay the sales tax.
So if you are the kind of person who only pays their taxes when they are worried about getting caught, and would otherwise break the law with impunity (like those rioters in Ferguson), then this is clearly a good thing.
Just you and I and a few others, I believe.
And now that Amazon is collecting sales tax in my state, I won’t even really have to keep track. So that is nice, it was a real pain before.
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