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Newegg Defies New York Sales Tax Law
JagsLive informs us that the electronics retailer Newegg.com is defying New York lawmakers; it has suddenly stopped collecting sales tax from New York online shoppers. The "Amazon tax," which went into effect June 1, requires online merchants to collect sales tax if they have any affiliates in the state. Amazon is complying but has sued the state on constitutional grounds. Overstock.com dropped all of its New York affiliates and then joined the Amazon lawsuit. Newegg started out complying with the law on June 1, but stopped collecting taxes for New York on August 21. From Newegg's letter to its customers: "After careful review and consideration, we are pleased to inform you that we have stopped collecting New York sales tax, effective August 21, 2008," reads an email the company tossed at customers late last week, including at least one loyal Reg reader. "This decision was driven by your direct and candid feedback and our continued commitment to you as our valued customers."
What do you expect from a traditionally Democratic state.
Tax everyone to pay for the lazies.
if you steal from one source, that is plagiarism, if you steal from many, well, that's just research.
Blue Staters don't "want to send more money to DC". We want to send enough money to DC in return for services we need. Red Staters differ only in that they want extra services, like wars (fought by someone else), will say they want fewer services (but only to everyone else), and never want to pay for it (though they always get someone else to).
What's "missing" is the truth about the Red States, which are Welfare States. They always have been: they were all colonized and defended by the Blue States, starting with the armies raised and funded by the Blue States; their infrastructure, from roads to irrigation to electrification to telephone and Internet, all paid by Blue States; their economies have all been paid by Blue State customers; their Dust Bowls, Depressions and bank catastrophies all bailed out by Blue States. And we can see clearly that when the Red States get total control of the government, that Welfare State programme is blatantly obvious.
What's also missing is Blue States finally holding Red States to their myths of "independence and self-sufficiency". We should cut them off from the public tit. Then let's see how their plummeting population manages to support enough votes in the House of Representatives and the Electoral College to keep the scam going enough to stay afloat.
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Very puzzling--so if Blue states end up being the losers on this deal why do they want to send even more money to Washington. Seems to me if I am getting less than what I am sending, I should send less. Something is missing here -- not sure what, though.
Yes, what is missing is your compassion for those who are worse off than yourself. Someone who can't afford healthcare or food needs your dollar more than you need it to visit Starbuck's for the 10th time this week. So what you're missing is the concept of resources going towards the most needy from the least needy. Enter "Robin Hood" into Wikipedia for more info.
"We can categorically state we have not released man-eating badgers into the area." - UK military spokesman, July 2007
We spend about $10,000 per student per year! Washington DC spends twice that. What the hell would you consider adequate funding? And where do you get the idea that urban areas have less trouble with people 'getting along?' Have you looked at the violent crime rates in big Democrat cities? If you're so worried about the transfer of wealth from blue to red states then oppose federal social programs.
Nonsense. No one "desperately wants taxes to go up", and of course no one would "e find not getting much money". As demonstrated by these clear facts.
Blue Staters tend to pull their weight a lot more. And the people who live in Blue States like NY, CA, MA and the rest are much more likely to pay professionals to prepare our tax returns than people in rural Red States.
The reality is that Republicans taxed the Blue States and spent it on the Red States. In the most massive tax & spend operation ever - the hugest debt creation ever.
Only a Republican could reverse sense into nonsense like that. Listen, just because you're grammatically correct when it's your turn to speak doesn't mean that your contribution "balances" the truth.
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No, I said "those Western states", never "the Western states", and the much more general "the West" when describing the overall region without specifying any particular state, because the "independence" myth is held by the whole region, though only a few places in it can make that claim.
You are a liar. Not just "biased", but a liar. Now tell me you're a "libertarian", and I'll tell you that's redundant.
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But isn't that what voters in Blue States want -- to pay more in taxes than the Red States? After all, they keep electing folks who keep raising the taxes.
Massive borrowing accompanied by far more massive spending than even the Democrats is the Republican M.O. That *is* absolutely a huge raise in taxes. It's just an extremely sleazy, unethical and far more expensive way to go about it.
So, no, that's not at all what they want which would be quite obvious to you had you paid any attention at all in the last 30 years or so.
Devaluing the currency as Republicans are so fond of doing is an easy way to take the value right out of your bank account while leaving the balance unchanged.
It's pathetic how Repugnicunt shitbags keep falling for the same tricks time after time. It's Pavlovian. "Raise taxes baaaad" "Lower taxes goooood" automatically without addressing spending, services or any of the actual relevant facts. Lowering taxes is great if you lower spending, not if you jack it through the roof because you pissed your pants over a largely made up threat and therefore sell out our country to China by pissing away all our wealth and begging them for loans to keep doing it.