California Assembly Approves Internet Tax

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 1, 2011 @10:10AM from the tax-man-cometh dept.

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."

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Re:I guess I just won't buy stuff online anymore. by jhoegl · 2011-06-01 10:36 · Score: 3, Interesting

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.