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Every Day's a Tax Holiday At Amazon
theodp writes "With Black Friday here, Slate's Farhad Manjoo reminds readers of how Amazon.com undersells Best Buy, the Apple store, and almost everybody else. Read his lips: no sales taxes. Unless you live in KS, KY, NY, ND, or WA, you'll pay no sales tax on many purchases from Amazon, giving Amazon a huge — and largely hidden — price advantage over most other national retailers. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is certainly no fan of taxes — he explored founding Amazon on an Indian reservation, and recently ponied up $100,000 to defeat a proposed WA state income tax, a good investment for someone who's cashed in close to $800,000,000 in Amazon stock this year alone. So, is Amazon's tax-free status unfair? Of course it is, says Manjoo. Amazon has physical operations in 17 states in which the company and its employees enjoy the fruits of local taxes — police and fire protection, roads, hospitals, and other infrastructure that make its operations possible. Yet Amazon skirts tax collection in most of these places through clever legal tricks."
"You get less choice when you buy stuff online" Whaaaaat?
The government knows better than to enforce those taxes upon the citizenry as it only causes a minor inconvenience on a single online retailer, 300 million people are likely to be a lot more upset
I would agree with you in principle and wish you were correct, but look at the huge number of people that have no self respect and willingly let the government molest & sexually abuse them (and their children) flying home this thanksgiving holiday.
The government knows people will roll over for anything now.
Both retired military veterans, now 60+, we own 3 homes, and the taxes exceed $5,000 per year, in Florida! Then, we have a 7.5% local and state sales tax!!! The government (State, Federal, & Local) are sloppy wealthy, sucking taxes from our pensions, and our work, and wants more??? Let's stop them spending likd a drunken sailor! It is well past time to throw all the scoundrels out, impose the FAIRTAX that repeals the illegal 16th Amendment to the Constitution, which has NEVER been ratified! Eliminate the huge army of goons that comprise the IRS! Fairtax fully funds Medicare, Social Security, the Federal government, PLUS, makes the Criminal Mafia and drug dealers pay over $1.5 trillion into the tax system! You must be corrupt to want to keep the current system that criminalizes little old ladies, buys votes, supports the 100,000 lobbyists, with corruption, bribes, and promotes voter fraud!