SCOTUS rules states can now tax internet sales ?

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   ahorsebackposted 7 years ago

   No more free ride for the big ones , Amazon etc........?
   Good or Bad?

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      wildernessposted 7 years agoin reply to this

      The big ones like Amazon have been collecting sales taxes on internet sales for quite some time.  It was deemed appropriate that states be able to force Amazon and others to do their work for them in collecting sales taxes from their citizens, as those citizens drug their feet at opening their pocketbooks. States don't even have to provide compensation for the service they force others to provide FOR the state.
      
      The greed of state governments for more money is as insatiable as that of the federal government.  Whenever they can find a buck or two, especially from those that can't fight back, they will grab for all they're worth.

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         ahorsebackposted 7 years agoin reply to this

         Breitbart's Andrew Wilkow often asks , " When a new tax or fee is raised by any authority for whatever purpose ,  what happened to the other monies for these services ?"    I agree though ,  any reason at all to spend other people's money .

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            wildernessposted 7 years agoin reply to this

            Why would he ask that?  The obvious answer is that "It wasn't enough!"  It never is, regardless of how much it was.

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   Randy Godwinposted 7 years ago

   I think it's a good idea if the taxes are in line with what locals businesses have to collect. Otherwise the state wouldn't collect enough taxes to run the government if everyone shopped online. Why should the brick and mortar stores have to collect sales taxes and online businesses not?

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   ahorsebackposted 7 years ago

   It's just about more ways to take OUR dollars for THEM to spend .   Liberals are the only ones who demand more incoming entitlement tax revenues and are okay with them.

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   wildernessposted 7 years ago

   This is absolute, unadulterated garbage.  It will put every small business that sells through the internet out of business.  From the New York Times:
   
   “Texas taxes sales of plain deodorant at 6.25 percent but imposes no tax on deodorant with antiperspirant,” Chief Justice Roberts wrote. “Illinois categorizes Twix and Snickers bars — chocolate-and-caramel confections usually displayed side-by-side in the candy aisle — as food and candy, respectively (Twix have flour; Snickers don’t), and taxes them differently.”
   
   Now add in that localities can be state, city and county, all wanting taxes collected under different laws.  No start up business and no small business can possibly comply.
   
   Now if congress would get to work and make it a law...along with a requirement that anyone wanting tax collected must supply the business with a standardized computer program, updated by the locality, that quickly and easily calculates the tax it would only leave a small business sending out a few thousand payments per month.

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   Randy Godwinposted 7 years ago

   If local businesses can handle the taxes then so could online marketers. After all, they don't have a store and  stock to maintain or other expenses a brick and mortar store has.

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