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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."
The reason that Amazon has the advantage over all the local retailers that it puts out of business, is because it plays by different rules. No, it's not right, and Amazon needs to start playing by the same rules as everyone else.
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Surprise, two liberal papers start bitching about how someone isn't paying their "fair share" of taxes, overlooking, as usual, that everyone who invests in Amazon already pays an increasing tax for it, the people that work at Amazon already pay taxes, the people that sell to Amazon pay taxes, and now they just want to add the people that buy from Amazon to that list. Really, its just about getting more money into the government coffers so they can blow it on a bunch of crap, and the only definition of fair for any liberal is more money for them.
How about this? Let's have the liberal media pay its fair share. I say that intellectual property should be property taxed. Shouldn't the New York Times and the LA Times be charged a property tax for every back article they have ever written? If they can sell old reprints, doesn't that mean they are floating on property taxes? Why is it that someone like a Linus Torvalds or GNU can hold a copyright to code worth billions of dollars without having paying taxes on it? If I had a thousand acres of property, I should have to pay taxes on it. Just because someone can live in my house for free doesn't change its assessed value. Why shouldn't they pay for the property taxes they own? I think we should get rid of this baked in advantage for IP industries and demand that they too pay their fair share.
If big media wants us to treat IP like it is real property, then tax it like real property.
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Ah if only the global population were more intellectual. Then us lowly ingrates would all happily pay whatever tax the authorities mandate necessary to solve our social problems. I love the word 'social'. It reminds me of ice-cream. So let's all be intellectual, eat ice-cream and pay taxes.
Now with my dick in your mouth, you will get the only tax you deserve you greedy paper worshiping cum guzzling kikes.
While you are at it, you can hoard my nuts in your mouth too. Go ahead and push me to make all my purchases from an online store in ANOTHER COUNTRY so your pissant failing Empire has more of your precious unbacked money flowing out and damn near none flowing in with Imperial businesses either leaving or failing in droves. Lost jobs and more bankruptcies leading to a guaranteed double great depression, but what do you leech Jews care so long as you got your gold and paper to worship?
Stupid greedy Jews, always fucking everything up. Why oh why wasn't the holocaust real? Why oh fucking why can't there be a real one but eliminate every single Jewish parasite off of humanity's back forever so we are no longer crippled and held back by paper worshiping greedy hoarding parasites???
Jews: Cancer of progress and plague of humanity.