US Senate Passes Internet Tax Bill 69 To 27

schwit1 quotes The Washington Post: "The Senate aimed to help traditional retailers and financially strapped state and local governments Monday by passing a bill that would widely subject online shopping — for many a largely tax-free frontier — to state sales taxes. The Senate passed the bill by a vote of 69 to 27, getting support from Republicans and Democrats alike." schwit1 adds "Unfortunately online businesses could be in for a rude awakening when it comes to the law's interpretation." Passage in the House is not certain, and companies like eBay are lobbying to raise the minimum sales required to collect state sales tax to $10 million instead of $1 million per year.

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[gstoddart]

Your comment in another way: "Sure influenza has killed some people but not everyone dies when they get it so how can you say it's bad?"

Wow, your awesome skills with false dichotomies and offering absurd opposites is absolutely staggering.

"Not every woman has been raped, so how can rape be such a bad thing?" "Not everybody has died from a nuclear bomb so how can you can nuclear bombs be bad?" "Capitalism has yet to destroy society so it must be awesome" "Not all babies died from melamine contaminated formula, so melamine can't be all that bad for you" "My job hasn't been outsourced, so globalization must be awesome" "You're either with us or with the terrorists"

Sorry, but you started with an absurd assertion, and have gone downhill from there. You're mostly speaking nonsense, and the world can't be summed up with platitudes and over the top either-or statements.