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Senate approves online sales tax bill [W:244]

Deuce said:
Your business may not be physically located in the other state, but you are operating within their
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I'm operating in my state.

Why do you think you are exempt from that state's rules? Why doesn't that state get to regulate operations within their borders?
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Because they are reaching outside of their state to regulate. Pretty easy to understand.

They aren't just arbitrarily taxing people in another state. You are operating in their borders by choice. That choice comes with certain obligations. Feel free to not sell to people in that state.
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They aren't taxing anyone outside of their state. They are making them collect taxes for them.
 
Henrin said:
Some taxes need to be evaded. If taxes weren't evaded many among us would not have jobs.
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If your job requires tax evasion, your business should operate better. Free market will sort out the losers.
 
Henrin said:
I'm operating in my state.



Because they are reaching outside of their state to regulate. Pretty easy to understand.



They aren't taxing anyone outside of their state. They are making them collect taxes for them.
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Taxes for sales that occur in their borders. What else do you think you should be exempt from because you have a PO box outside the state? Health codes? Building codes? Murder laws?
 
MarineTpartier said:
Here's an honest question, because I don't know the answer. What's to stop a state from jacking up the taxes on a particular product to effectively put them out of business? Lets say Congressman X receives money from Nike but not Reebok. What's to stop Congressman X from slipping a higher tax on Reeboks into a bill as a favor to Nike? And before any of you say ethics, think long and hard about what kind of people we're talking about here. We're talking about people that won't vote into law a bill disallowing them to have insider trading rights.
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I would imagine that specifically would be struck down. They'd have to raise sales tax on all shoes, not just particular brand names.
 
Deuce said:
If your job requires tax evasion, your business should operate better. Free market will sort out the losers.
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I have no idea what that has to do with my point. A successful business can in fact be crushed by taxes. It happens from time to time in fact. If taxes were not evaded less people would be hired which would lead to higher unemployment.
 
Henrin said:
I have no idea what that has to do with my point. A successful business can in fact be crushed by taxes. It happens from time to time in fact. If taxes were not evaded less people would be hired which would lead to higher unemployment.
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That's why online sales and brick and mortar sales should be taxed the same, so that brick and mortar isn't discriminated against.
 
Deuce said:
Taxes for sales that occur in their borders. What else do you think you should be exempt from because you have a PO box outside the state? Health codes? Building codes? Murder laws?
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I live in another state and therefore I live under different laws. It's fairly simple.
 
TheDemSocialist said:
Newsflash Marxism is essentially communism.



Advocating higher tax rates and making a more "fair" economic system is not "class warfare"...
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Marxism is not a political entity; it is a means to attain one, and I have no issue with higher tax rates as long as ALL are sacrificing...
 
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Henrin said:
I live in another state and therefore I live under different laws. It's fairly simple.
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But the online business isn't living in another state, it's operating in multiple states. Do you really think they should be able to ignore the laws of a state they operate in?
 
sangha said:
And now, you'll have to pay your states sales tax when you buy online :lol:
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Yeah, except my business is in another state and I'm being told to collect taxes for your state. See the problem? There is a reason the courts decided this was outside of the states power.
 
TheDemSocialist said:
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[FONT=arial, tahoma, sans-serif]Nice to see that Republicans Senators are getting behind "[/FONT][FONT=arial, tahoma, sans-serif]fairness[/FONT][FONT=arial, tahoma, sans-serif]".. But i applaud the passing of this bill it is only fair and just. [/FONT]
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I think it sucks, just another way to bilk more money out of the taxpayers. sales tax is the most regressive tax in my opinion that we have. Perhaps the fairest as one only pays the tax on what they use or consume, but regressive none the less.
 
Henrin said:
Yeah, except my business is in another state and I'm being told to collect taxes for your state. See the problem?
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No. If you want to operate in my state you have to collect my state's taxes, just like every other business operating within my borders.

If you can't follow my state's laws, stay the **** out.
 
head of joaquin said:
That's why online sales and brick and mortar sales should be taxed the same, so that brick and mortar isn't discriminated against.
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Yet this bill still allows... no, encourages... said discrimination by providing exceptions for smaller online retailers under a certain amount of yearly sales.

Oopsie. So much for fairness and leveling the playing field.
 
Deuce said:
No. If you want to operate in my state you have to collect my state's taxes, just like every other business operating within my borders.

If you can't follow my state's laws, stay the **** out.
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Lol, why are you so defensive about your state?
 
AlabamaPaul said:
Marxism is not a political entity; it is a means to attain one, and I have no issue with higher tax rates as long as ALL are sacrificing...
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Read some Marx then get back at me.
 
Henrin said:
Yeah, except my business is in another state and I'm being told to collect taxes for your state. See the problem? There is a reason the courts decided this was outside of the states power.
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There is no problem once Congress passes this law
 
Henrin said:
There is noting to deflect on. I'm operating in my state. :lol:
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Not if you're selling things in my state. Then you're operating in mine.
 
Senate approves online sales tax bill

I wish I could have bet on this in Vegas - I would have put every penny I could spare on this passing.
 
TheDemSocialist said:
Read some Marx then get back at me.
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I have read which is how I've reached my conclusions. There is no distinct form of Marxist government, just a road map to attain the desired result...
 
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