California Assembly Approves Internet Tax

ClientNine writes "California could collect more than $1 billion a year by taxing Amazon and other online retailers if a bill approved by the Assembly becomes law. Assemblyman Charles Calderon, a Democrat from Whittier, says his legislation doesn't impose a new sales tax, but extends one that California should already have been enforcing. AB155 passed, 47-16, with the support of one GOP lawmaker Tuesday. It now heads to the Senate. Other Republicans rejected the bill because they said it would invite lawsuits, drive business out of California, and get the state entangled in the messy task of regulating the Internet."

Comments

Re:I guess I just won't buy stuff online anymore.

[jhoegl]

Yeah, and I laughed.
Considering the history of business in the world I know for a fact that without regulation, rules, and governance those corporations will steal, poison and murder to make more money.
So why not allow the government to do it? We have more control over them than we do businesses.

Re:I guess I just won't buy stuff online anymore.

[cpu6502]

Since 1910, governments have killed approximately 200 million of their OWN citizens, typically through planned genocide. (The number rises over 1 billion if you include non-citizens killed in war.) How many millions have corporations killed? (Essentially zero million.)

>>>Get rid of government

Libertarians are not anarchists. Libertarians support having a government in order to keep the corporations from treading on Citizens' Rights. In fact many libertarians, like me, would abolish corporations completely. Instead you would have direct-owned companies, were the CEO and his partners would be directly liable for their acts.

So for example if a car they built blew-up, they could be charged with manslaughter and thrown in jail. NO corporate shield. The corporate license wouldn't even exist. The No-Corporation libertarian world would actually be BETTER than the corporate-dominated world we have now.