"If New York State wants to block us Ebayers from selling our used games, videos, whatever from crossing the NY Border, I'm okay with that"
Too bad; the U.S. Constitution isn't.
Correct. New York can not block non-resident sellers from selling goods across borders. Likewise New York can not deputize non-resident sellers to be NY Tax Collectors. It's forbidden by the Constitution. NY authority does not extend past their own state line
You sell a widget for 10 bucks, you get 10 buck from the purchase. If a state has a 10% tax, you collect 11 bucks, send 1 to the state and end up with 10 bucks. Now do you see how YOU are not being taxed.
I see a lot of wasted time (which has value) being imposed to do tax paperwork by 49 states that have Zero authority to do that. Where do these 49 governments get the legal authority to impose their laws, and deputize sellers as tax collectors, on non-citizens?
Yes but the U.S. has no authority to tax somebody who has never lived there (i.e. they can't tax canadians). Neither do they have authority to turn non-residents into U.S. Tax Collectors.
Likewise N.Y. has no authority to tax somebody who have never lived there (i.e. they can't tax californians). Neither do they have authority to turn non-residents into NY Tax Collectors.
Sales tax should be collected (by the seller) when the Seller and the Buyer are in the same state. i.e. If I buy from an Ebayer in California, and I also live in California, then the seller should add the tax to my receipt and collect it.
Otherwise it should be a Use tax that is collected (from the buyer). States have no authority to "deputize" non-citizens to be their tax collectors. State authority ends at the border.
The rules for taxation within the Union are set by the Federal government
Ladies and gentleman: This is why the U.S. is turning from a liberal federalist Republic into a conservative centralized Oligarchy of 545, like the one our founders rebelled against ~240 years ago. MEA37 and other citizens do not understand how this country works. The Federal government does not set the rules. The rules are set like this:
THE PEOPLE (ultimate holders of all authority) | THE STATES (declared independent in 1776 - subject to State Constitutions and the People within) | Unified by the Articles of Conferation (1781); Replaced by the U.S. Constitution (1789) | Federal Government (subservient to the Constitution)
The federal government was created as the weakest of all governments, with a very small number of powers, while most powers are still reserved to the States. (Same way the EU's federal government was created.) The taxation rules are determined by the U.S. Constitution not the feds.
Of course there is; you can refuse to sell there. But then, why is it any of your business? If the people paying the tax - those being the buyer - think an 8% sales tax is worth what the state provides them , that's none of your business. The fact that you would be called on as an agent to collect said tax does not give you a legitimate voice in deciding how high the tax should be.
You make a valid point but...
The state of New York has no authority to "deputize" some guy in Virginia as their tax collector (or else arrest him). Do they? I cannot think of any legal justification for that. Can you?
Or cold-hearted. Doesn't the Americans with Disabilities Act require books to be published in braille form, if a blind person requests it?
Also his attitude is not too surprising. There used to be a company that purchased perfectly-legal DVDs of movies, removed the objectionable scenes, and then sold the DVD (plus $10 to cover the service) to families. That company got sued, and the directors argued if familes want clean versions, they will provide them. Well that company is now gone, but I don't see any family-friendly DVDs being released.
It's all about control. THEY have it; we don't. Yet another reason I think works need to be allowed to fall into the public domain, so public domain publishers can offer these books/dvds in various formats (including braille or family-friendly).
The Japanese wupped the Chinese because China was backwards technologically. They tried to fight the world's best airplane (the A5M - predecessor to the Zero) with world war 1 biplanes. They were crushed. I don't think you can say the same about the U.S. military being backwards or easily defeated
And yes Americans will fight in hand-to-hand combat using their hunting rifles if that's what it takes. As Churchill said in the last war: "We shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."
The funny business in housing can be traced to the Clinton-era HUD forcing banks to make loans to risky poor persons (or else face being drug into court). Then the Republicans tried to rein-in the exploding bubble, but the Democrats blocked it. And eventually when those poor persons couldn't keep-up with their loans (no surprise) the whole thing came crashing down in 2007-8.
You down with O.P.P.? Yeah you know me. Who's down with O.P.P.? Every last lady!
Haaaaaarm me with harmony! "O" is for other, "P" is people scratching temple. The last "P" well that's not so simple. There's five little letters that are missing and you get it on occasion after the partying is ending (and it rhymes with hussy). For the young'uns who have no idea what I'm talkin' bout - move your mouse and click'it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmuFlaFYdgE - (Man I miss the hiphop 90s. Miley Cyrus is okay but she's no replacement.)
27 of them to be exact; in operation it appears similar to the U.S. Executive Cabinet, if said cabinet was appointed by the 50 States instead of the president.
every person in the US that was so hell bent on fighting public transportation then shits a brick because it costs twice as much to get to work then there will be panic and rioting.
Not me. My Honda Insight averages 80 miles per gallon of gasoline under normal driving, and if I drive slow enough (55) I get very close to 100 mpg. Meanwhile Volkswagen is releasing a commuter-mobile that will get about 250 MPG on the interstate. I'm not worried about high gasoline costs. We just need to switch to higher-efficiency cars.
Nobody is "hell bent" on fighting public transport ion. People are hell bent on fighting attempts to force the rest of us to use public transportion, i.e: by artificially raising the cost of keeping an automobile, taxing those who don't use mass transit to make it more affordable for those that do, etc, etc.
Precisely. I just heard in the Netherlands(?) it costs over $50,000 to buy a Ford Focus. $20-something for the actual car, plus another $30,000 in taxes. The government wants to discourage car purchases. Stupid. Cars are still the most-flexible method of move people from points A to B to C, then back to B, then jump over to Z, and maybe detour to point M, pickup food at H, and finally back home to A.
No train can do that. And as I mentioned above, you can get cars with 100 or even 250 MPG efficiency. We just need to build them and sell them in quantity.
If we do reach an oil crisis in our lifetime, it's only because our idiot government caused it.
Better enjoy all those free downloadable shows and movies while you can. Post-2020 there might not be enough energy left to run a television or computer to watch them.
From what I've read, it's the GOVERNMENT that is keeping things quiet. They want to keep the data under wraps until they can come-up with alternatives like nuclear-based electricity, solar-powered homes, and hydrogen cars. THEN they will release the information about oil's dwindling stockpile.
They are afraid if they release it now, a panic might happen, with oil rising to $200 a barrel which would devastate 1st and 2nd world economies (as if it wasn't already devastated enough). "May ye live in interesting times." - Chinese curse
Most corporate executives - the ones with real power to make "let's move our factory to China" decisions, not midlevel managers like us - are Democrats.
Peak oil is not about "running out" of oil. Yes there's plenty under the ground of the Dakotas, but that's not the issue.
Peak oil is about when the consumption exceeds the discovery of new fields, which means the "warehouse" of oil is emptying out instead of filling. Initially nobody will notice, but soon they will and there will be a drive-up in prices due to the rapidly-dwindling reserve. It's similar to what has happened with Gamecube games. It's still possible to buy brand-new copies of, for example, Mario Sunshine but because no new copies are being made, the price has risen from $30 upto $80 (or more).
Rising scarcity resulted in rising prices, and the same will happen with oil in the very-near future (2011 or 2012). If you've got money to spare, buy oil stock NOW.
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It's scary that the EU holds that much power. The US can not interfere with local state taxes.
"If New York State wants to block us Ebayers from selling our used games, videos, whatever from crossing the NY Border, I'm okay with that"
Too bad; the U.S. Constitution isn't.
Correct. New York can not block non-resident sellers from selling goods across borders. Likewise New York can not deputize non-resident sellers to be NY Tax Collectors. It's forbidden by the Constitution. NY authority does not extend past their own state line
New York Government has no authority to force Virginians or any other non-citizens to be NY Tax Collectors.
Try again, but this time THINK first.
You sell a widget for 10 bucks, you get 10 buck from the purchase.
If a state has a 10% tax, you collect 11 bucks, send 1 to the state and end up with 10 bucks.
Now do you see how YOU are not being taxed.
I see a lot of wasted time (which has value) being imposed to do tax paperwork by 49 states that have Zero authority to do that. Where do these 49 governments get the legal authority to impose their laws, and deputize sellers as tax collectors, on non-citizens?
Yes but the U.S. has no authority to tax somebody who has never lived there (i.e. they can't tax canadians). Neither do they have authority to turn non-residents into U.S. Tax Collectors.
Likewise N.Y. has no authority to tax somebody who have never lived there (i.e. they can't tax californians). Neither do they have authority to turn non-residents into NY Tax Collectors.
Sales tax should be collected (by the seller) when the Seller and the Buyer are in the same state. i.e. If I buy from an Ebayer in California, and I also live in California, then the seller should add the tax to my receipt and collect it.
Otherwise it should be a Use tax that is collected (from the buyer). States have no authority to "deputize" non-citizens to be their tax collectors. State authority ends at the border.
Okay.
By what authority does New York force a non-citizen to be their tax collector? Please explain the legal justification for all of us.
The rules for taxation within the Union are set by the Federal government
Ladies and gentleman: This is why the U.S. is turning from a liberal federalist Republic into a conservative centralized Oligarchy of 545, like the one our founders rebelled against ~240 years ago. MEA37 and other citizens do not understand how this country works. The Federal government does not set the rules. The rules are set like this:
THE PEOPLE (ultimate holders of all authority)
|
THE STATES (declared independent in 1776 - subject to State Constitutions and the People within)
|
Unified by the Articles of Conferation (1781); Replaced by the U.S. Constitution (1789)
|
Federal Government (subservient to the Constitution)
The federal government was created as the weakest of all governments, with a very small number of powers, while most powers are still reserved to the States. (Same way the EU's federal government was created.) The taxation rules are determined by the U.S. Constitution not the feds.
Of course there is; you can refuse to sell there. But then, why is it any of your business? If the people paying the tax - those being the buyer - think an 8% sales tax is worth what the state provides them , that's none of your business. The fact that you would be called on as an agent to collect said tax does not give you a legitimate voice in deciding how high the tax should be.
You make a valid point but...
The state of New York has no authority to "deputize" some guy in Virginia as their tax collector (or else arrest him). Do they? I cannot think of any legal justification for that. Can you?
That's it!
I'm moving my office from the second floor to the basement.
If they allow Russia and Norway and Ukraine to join the EU, that penis will disappear. Like so: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Europe_(orthographic_projection).svg
Or cold-hearted. Doesn't the Americans with Disabilities Act require books to be published in braille form, if a blind person requests it?
Also his attitude is not too surprising. There used to be a company that purchased perfectly-legal DVDs of movies, removed the objectionable scenes, and then sold the DVD (plus $10 to cover the service) to families. That company got sued, and the directors argued if familes want clean versions, they will provide them. Well that company is now gone, but I don't see any family-friendly DVDs being released.
It's all about control. THEY have it; we don't. Yet another reason I think works need to be allowed to fall into the public domain, so public domain publishers can offer these books/dvds in various formats (including braille or family-friendly).
The Japanese wupped the Chinese because China was backwards technologically. They tried to fight the world's best airplane (the A5M - predecessor to the Zero) with world war 1 biplanes. They were crushed. I don't think you can say the same about the U.S. military being backwards or easily defeated
And yes Americans will fight in hand-to-hand combat using their hunting rifles if that's what it takes. As Churchill said in the last war: "We shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."
The funny business in housing can be traced to the Clinton-era HUD forcing banks to make loans to risky poor persons (or else face being drug into court). Then the Republicans tried to rein-in the exploding bubble, but the Democrats blocked it. And eventually when those poor persons couldn't keep-up with their loans (no surprise) the whole thing came crashing down in 2007-8.
Video proof -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivmL-lXNy64
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW5qKYfqALE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMnSp4qEXNM
You down with O.P.P.?
Yeah you know me.
Who's down with O.P.P.?
Every last lady!
Haaaaaarm me with harmony! "O" is for other, "P" is people scratching temple. The last "P" well that's not so simple. There's five little letters that are missing and you get it on occasion after the partying is ending (and it rhymes with hussy). For the young'uns who have no idea what I'm talkin' bout - move your mouse and click'it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmuFlaFYdgE - (Man I miss the hiphop 90s. Miley Cyrus is okay but she's no replacement.)
"C'mon, c'mon, c'omn, let me show you what it's all about." - Michael Jackson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYx3BR2aJA4
...thereby weakening the south's power, and offsetting power in favor of the "free" north.
27 of them to be exact; in operation it appears similar to the U.S. Executive Cabinet, if said cabinet was appointed by the 50 States instead of the president.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/EU_Insigna.svg Why is there a hole in the middle of Europe? Is that where the CERN Accelerator used to be?
Why is this page all blue?
"ack ze brightness... zhe hurts me eyes!"
The extra $1100 is for Intel to pay their legal defense fund when the Authors' Guild sues them for violating their authors' "performance rights".
I'm serious. The Guild has already sued Amazon for creating a Kindle that reads books out loud.
other more renewable resources.
You mean like trees, wood, and paper? --- Ow! I'm being stoned by greenies
every person in the US that was so hell bent on fighting public transportation then shits a brick because it costs twice as much to get to work then there will be panic and rioting.
Not me. My Honda Insight averages 80 miles per gallon of gasoline under normal driving, and if I drive slow enough (55) I get very close to 100 mpg. Meanwhile Volkswagen is releasing a commuter-mobile that will get about 250 MPG on the interstate. I'm not worried about high gasoline costs. We just need to switch to higher-efficiency cars.
Nobody is "hell bent" on fighting public transport ion. People are hell bent on fighting attempts to force the rest of us to use public transportion, i.e: by artificially raising the cost of keeping an automobile, taxing those who don't use mass transit to make it more affordable for those that do, etc, etc.
Precisely. I just heard in the Netherlands(?) it costs over $50,000 to buy a Ford Focus. $20-something for the actual car, plus another $30,000 in taxes. The government wants to discourage car purchases. Stupid. Cars are still the most-flexible method of move people from points A to B to C, then back to B, then jump over to Z, and maybe detour to point M, pickup food at H, and finally back home to A.
No train can do that. And as I mentioned above, you can get cars with 100 or even 250 MPG efficiency. We just need to build them and sell them in quantity.
If we do reach an oil crisis in our lifetime, it's only because our idiot government caused it.
Better enjoy all those free downloadable shows and movies while you can.
Post-2020 there might not be enough energy left to run a television or computer to watch them.
From what I've read, it's the GOVERNMENT that is keeping things quiet. They want to keep the data under wraps until they can come-up with alternatives like nuclear-based electricity, solar-powered homes, and hydrogen cars. THEN they will release the information about oil's dwindling stockpile.
They are afraid if they release it now, a panic might happen, with oil rising to $200 a barrel which would devastate 1st and 2nd world economies (as if it wasn't already devastated enough). "May ye live in interesting times." - Chinese curse
Most corporate executives - the ones with real power to make "let's move our factory to China" decisions, not midlevel managers like us - are Democrats.
Peak oil is not about "running out" of oil. Yes there's plenty under the ground of the Dakotas, but that's not the issue.
Peak oil is about when the consumption exceeds the discovery of new fields, which means the "warehouse" of oil is emptying out instead of filling. Initially nobody will notice, but soon they will and there will be a drive-up in prices due to the rapidly-dwindling reserve. It's similar to what has happened with Gamecube games. It's still possible to buy brand-new copies of, for example, Mario Sunshine but because no new copies are being made, the price has risen from $30 upto $80 (or more).
Rising scarcity resulted in rising prices, and the same will happen with oil in the very-near future (2011 or 2012). If you've got money to spare, buy oil stock NOW.