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States To Try Taxation Of The Net Again
kimbermatic writes "From the Denver Post comes this article that the states are ready to try and tax the internet sales once more. The poor economy is sending the 'hounds' sniffing for more money. An interesting, and alarming read if your interested in protecting online merchants from this taxation plan." 'though it's not really online sales that are the big ones people want -- it's catalog mail order sales, which are still much bigger then online sales.
As much as I'd love to see it, we can't, because then we'd be seen as isolationist and unwilling to share our wealth with the world.
Other cultures get pissed off when the USA doesn't give them money. If we were to tax imports, then China would complain to the UN that we were using our position as the world's biggest buyer to extort extra money in the form of taxes from our trading partners.
If you think Bin Laden is pissed off, just remember - we GAVE him money. Imagine what a terrorist would think when we TAKE money from them.
Bzzzt... I don't see anyone buying OUR stuff and helping us out of our recession. When they have ALL of our wealth, will it be okay then?
Yeah, he also used "your" instead of "you're":
An interesting, and alarming read if your interested
Once again proving my theory that kids today are fucking idiots.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
If e-tailers can't make it on their own, so be it. There's no advantage to the community overall in having e-tailers. Actually, they're a huge disadvantage. They encourage people to keep their fat, lazy asses at home, they employ far, far fewer employees than a real store, they generally don't contribute nearly as much as "real" stores do. And, you know, there *are* still small stores out there. Not every store is a fucking Wal-Mart. I own a successful small shop, and I'm forced to compete with a bunch of yahoos drop shipping everything from car tires to baby formula from their living rooms, contributing absolutely nothing to the economy, including tax.
Of course, I'm fundamentally against "general" taxation and believe that our tax forms should include an itemized list that we can select to spend our portion of the tax we paid on. That way programs that were universally dislike would disappear quickly, programs that just a few people liked could be supported somewhat, but very popular programs would get even more money. I'm also against Social Security and Medicare. Mostly because I'll never collect SocSec, and even when my wife and I were both unemployed we didn't qualify for Medicare and as a consequence have large amounts of medical bills. So I'm paying all of this money out into services I will never see a return from, and a good 40% of my tax money gets taken to fund a military industrial complex that I don't support!
I can't believe I'm reading this! Suppose 99% of the population decided they don't want their tax money going to support unemployment benefits. Boy, you and the misses would have been SOL then. Then there's your wonderful "I don't want my money going for national defense." I suppose you still expect the evil military to defend you even though you have elected to withold all your tax dollars from them. If you don't want to pay for the military then I don't see why they should provide you, personally, any protection. If Osama appears on Al-Jezzera and states "On October 29, 2002, the holy warriors of Al-Queda will attack and destroy the house of Kintanon, Allah be blessed, Allah be praised. We swear to Allah that no one else will be harmed." then I think the military that you refused to pay (with your taxes) ought to just sit by and let it happen. I'm guessing you probably feel differently...
I'd hate to see exactly how the masses decided to allocate their tax dollars if it was up to them. Especially since very few people have the background in economics to realize the full implication of their choices.
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