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Are You Reporting Your Internet Purchases?
theodp writes "Over the next week, taxpayers in 19 states will be confronting new sections on state returns that ask them to fork over unpaid sales taxes for items purchased out of state, including Internet transactions. A NY Daily News editorial characterized the addition of use tax to state returns as a rip-off and advised taxpayers to fill in a zero on the line, although an accountant suggests doing so may even be worse than just leaving it blank and put you on the line for tax fraud."
of course the honor system works if they find i owe thousands of dollars, i will gladly pull it out of my ass
Yes, I am.
;)
And if you don't, you'll go to hell, just like those hippy linux bastards!
THERE IS NO FREE LUNCH!
I like the concept here.
We're the government! We don't think we're taking enough of your money! Therefore, we're going to start taxing you more! We're not going to tell you why, or where your money will go! You have to wait to find out! And even then, it'll be a real bitch to figure out exactly what we're doing with it, and some of it will be intentionally hidden from you!
Hooray for the government! yay!
Fuck that, buncha goddamn assholes ARE ripping us off. Fuck their wars and their huge ass government and their pork barrel highway bills. Fuck their wages, fuck them. Fuck their "faith based initiatives". Fuck their pet projects and their payoffs to foreign nationals.
Alito: A vote for Alito is a punch in the eye to put that bitch back in her place!
By definition. Prove me wrong. And to preemptively eliminate the standard responses:
"Taxation is okay because it's voted on democratically." False. If you are a room of 30 people and vote to take one person's watch, that is theft. Might doesn't make right.
"Taxation is okay because we need [some government service]." False. If I go, armed, to your house and say "give me all your money I need to [build a road, build a spaceship, pay a politician, give it to medical researchers, etc.]", it may or may not be for a good cause but it is still robbery.
No, it's got nothing to do with books or porn. But it (this industry) is feeling pressure from online shopping (which I also offer, but hate to deal with). It's not even about my industry. It's that this country is turning into a country full of fat, pasty, apartment-dwelling, lazy mouse-clickers who don't really care about where they live and the stores around them. The homogenization of the country is accelerating, and all of this goddamn online shopping is closing stores right and left so that in many small towns, you've got a Wal-Mart, a grocery store, and the same tired string of fast food chains. Call me nuts, but that sounds pretty damn bleak to me.
yes its true..
they cant do any real jobs... they can only rap about how much they kill people and what drugs they sell.. or they can rap about how much their gun spits or how strong they are, when in reality the average slashdotter could kick any of these pussy ass niggers asses. They hide behind their words, and never live up to them. its ironic because stupid white children actually fall for the nigger style of life, paying for their music, and acting exactly like them. I say music because thats the only thing a nigger has ever made money in. legally that is.
It was the nigger who brought AIDS to america
It was the nigger who who spray painted my wall
It was the nigger who smelled up my workplace
yes they are runing american, along with mexicans. rid of them both and you have utopia
But I thought taxes were good because they provide funds to pay for things like universal healthcare, education, and those without jobs. Who wouldn't want to pay their taxes and make it harder to receive those benefits?
-Brent