Harry Guerrilla
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Re: California Screws the Pooch. Amazon cuts ties
If a person is buying in California, from a seller in California, that's fine to tax it.
If it is a buyer in California, purchasing something from a seller in Nevada, there is no justification for the tax.
California will need to get more competitive, if they want to keep business and taxes in state.
Crime rates and house fires are down.
They don't need the same level of tax money to sustain these public enterprises.
Do people purchasing online somehow use less government services than people buying in a brick and mortar store? Do they homeschool their kids, put out their own fires rather than calling the fire department, arrest their own prowlers? Remember, it is the buyer who lives in California paying the taxes, not the seller.
If a person is buying in California, from a seller in California, that's fine to tax it.
If it is a buyer in California, purchasing something from a seller in Nevada, there is no justification for the tax.
California will need to get more competitive, if they want to keep business and taxes in state.
Crime rates and house fires are down.
They don't need the same level of tax money to sustain these public enterprises.