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NY Times, LA Times Want Amazon To Collect More State Taxes
theodp writes "Recalling that CEO Jeff Bezos originally explored placing Amazon.com on an Indian Reservation near San Francisco to 'have access to talent without all the tax consequences,' the NY Times argues it's time to put an end to the e-tailer's 'entity isolation' tax-avoidance games. The LA Times chimes in, saying Amazon's claims that collecting sales tax constitute an undue burden are 'worth a horselaugh,' noting that Amazon boasts it has no problem keeping track of millions of unique products."
Because only amazon avoids taxes with legal loopholes.....
Nice to know a health care bill goes in with a "tax" per person, but we still cant get microsoft, blackwater, goldmansachs, to their fair share of taxes...
Guess amazon needs more lobbyists.
And, for an out-of-state company, the taxes would NEVER go to the local community, because the business isn't in that local community. There is the other problem of state governments spending so foolishly that NO ONE would approve. When public school teachers make upwards of $80,000 to teach from September through June, with MANY vacations and days off due to government holidays on top of that, there is a huge problem, and no one seems to be willing to step up and DO anything about it.
Why should government offices and schools be closed for Columbus Day for example? It is one thing to record things in history books, but SERIOUSLY, in times of financial difficulty, why are there so many PAID days off for government employees? The governments need to just re-evaluate the pay they give employees as well, and make sure they are appropriate for the local cost of living and what is being paid in the private sector. If someone in the private sector gets paid $25,000/year to answer a phone, then a government employee doing the same job should be getting paid $25,000/year, not $40,000/year plus better benefits and a pension on top of it. How about caps on pensions where people can NOT collect a pension for longer than 2/3rds of the time they were working(meaning 30 years of service would only provide 20 years of pension)?
Cut the cost(not size) of government, and the need for all this extra tax money would go way way down.