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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."
Cigarette taxes are directly designed to decrease smoking rates to improve public health. According to you, it's working. The associated decrease in medical expenses for the state more than pays for the loss of cigarette-tax payers.
Also, while you have some good points dancing just outside your reach, you don't manage to make any of them. Use of the phrase "liberal orthodoxy" was a good hint that you weren't going to make much sense.
Your following post pretends to get more specific, but it also falls flat on its face. Your assertions aren't even internally consistent, and the "Reagonomics rules the world and has led to ultimate prosperity" idea is laughably out of touch with the fact that economic growth since Reagan's time has been focused in those nations with contrary economic systems.
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Blue states are the ones with residents who desperately want taxes to go up, and go up they do.
Which is why Republicans are the party of biggest government and have been since that fascist cunt Reagan? Right, the opposite of the truth is the truth. Wow, you are deeply disturbed and delusional.
In red states, they avoid passing state tax laws.
Right. Because why would they pay for their own lives when they can live off the hard work of others through leeching off of the federal government? I wish I were so completely lacking in integrity as to feel comfortable being a lazy welfare leech but I was born with a backbone.
I think the key test would be to stop taxing so much (therefore sending less back to all states) and see if the red states complain. I bet they don't.
Most of them will go bankrupt and be basically third world countries. Now, granted, I'd love to see them show that kind of integrity for once instead of leaching off of my work and then not only lying about it but trying to tell me how I can live my life as they are so overwhelmingly eager to do,
but obviously, they'd declare civil war before they'd even try to pull their own weight.
Blue states would go nuts about welfare, but I bet red states would be fine not getting much money as long as taxes were low.
Which just demonstrates that you haven't even grasped what the issue actually is. The red states are living off of welfare. They *need*
my money to pay for their *current* lifestyle. Also, their taxes are low. Very low. As in less than zero. That's what it means to be a welfare state. When a state gets back $1.50 for each $1.00 in taxes, that means that they do not pay anything *at all* and instead receive welfare payments.
Now it's disgusting enough that somebody could live with themselves being such worthless greedy leeches, but to continually spout blatant lies about "personal responsibility" "small government" and "free markets" when their lifestyle depends completely on the rejection of all of those things is truly disgusting beyond all decency.