Senate To Vote On Internet Sales Tax (For Real This Time)

New submitter JoeyRox writes "On 3/22 the Senate approved a non-binding proposal to allow states to tax online sales to residents outside their state. That vote was a trial balloon to gauge the support for the Marketplace Fairness Act. This week Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid filed a cloture to allow the law to be voted on for real this time. The vote may occur as soon as tomorrow. eBay is attempting to rally Americans against the bill via a massive email campaign."

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Re:Yet another unconstitutional law

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Oh goody, a fucknut with the user name of RKBA, which probably stands for "Right to Keep and Bear Arms" lecturing us on the Constitution. Hey fucknut. Why don't you read the entire document? If you ever did that, and didn't just spend all of your time masturbating over the second amendment you might have come across this portion of the document in Article I, Section 10.

No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.

So according to this section of the Constitution Congress can consent to grant states the ability to tax imports and exports from that state, and by imports and exports the founding fathers meant not just commerce with foreign countries but commerce with other states. Right now online merchants have a huge and unfair advantage over brick and mortar merchants because they can set up in states without sales taxes and then sell to residents of states that have sales taxes without collecting any taxes. Why don't you do us all a favor you ignorant son-of-a-whore and take one of your guns, jam it into your mouth as far as you can and blow your fucking head off.