California Senate Approves Net Tax Bill

Grant Erickson points to this internet.com story, which says "On Thursday, the California state Senate approved a bill that requires businesses with stores in the state to charge their customers sales tax for purchases made over the Internet." The state's huge ($35 billion) budget deficit is named as a driving force for the measure.

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Better solution

[Squeezer]

why don't they just cut social service programs. Thats where the bulk of the money goes to. The state should quit giving free handouts to moms that have 8 babies and won't work because they are too lazy. Cut welfare, medicaid, handouts to illegal immigrants. Kick the illegals out and make the people on welfare get jobs.

Re:California residents

[stratjakt]

If you already live in California (about 1/6 of the population of the USA does)

s/USA/Mexico

My state gets a free tax collector at their beck

[mrmeval]

The reason for all the fuss is that if I am an out of town mail order customer and I order something from Amazon, the state where it's at cannot get me for a tax, that tax must go to the state I live in. Kalifornicate can only charge me a tax when I'm physically in their state breathing thier polluted air.

A dodge around the Kalifornicate tax would be to place the order by Internet but call and confirm the order by phone or by fax. Null law.

I am required to pay a MUCH cheaper tax to my state, it requires filling out forms and nasty mathematics and stuff.

I out to buy something that gives them a dollar then sue for damages or something. If nothing else the entire tax needs to come back to my home state WITHOUT any fees to Kalifornicate. Mainly because I don't want to pay for their incompetence.

I have enough incompetent politicians on my back as it is.

I think my state would dearly love this, a free tax collector at their beck and call.