Marketplace Fairness act

Posted by LionelHutz 11 years, 1 month ago to Economics
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Two URLs for your enlightenment:

http://www.24hgold.com/english/news-gold...

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2013/...

In a nutshell - the federal government wants to mandate that every out-of-state commerce shall have state sales tax applied to it. It is an attempt to cut off an avenue of tax avoidance.

What business is it of the Federal government whether a state collects sales tax or not? Perhaps this is political cover for state legislators who do not want to expose themselves. But it also could be a prelude to a national sales tax.


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  • Posted by eskslo 11 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Why pay taxes when you can point the finger at the "rich" and avoid the real issue?
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  • Posted by MrSelfish 11 years, 1 month ago
    Speaking of the insidious spread of Internet state sales tax collection, many thought the EU was the font from which Washington drank its policy formulation cool aid. But wait! How's this for weird? I bought an item from an English retailer thru his website. The vendor advised me that the 20% VAT was being debited from the inclusive advertised price, because EU tax policy requires that anything shipped outside the EU is NOT subject to the VAT. Never thought I'd have anything good to say about the 'Unholy Alliance'.
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  • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 11 years, 1 month ago
    When the governments, state and federal, can demonstrate that they can stop wasting what they loot now, they will have demonstrated that they need no more.
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  • Posted by UncommonSense 11 years, 1 month ago
    What BS. Perhaps if the dems would actually start paying their taxes we wouldn't have to resort to such plundering.
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  • Posted by SubVet 11 years, 1 month ago
    The states are little more than the middle managers these days as they are all feasting at the teat of Leviathan.
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  • Posted by $ rockymountainpirate 11 years, 1 month ago
    I agree this is the first shot in the national sales tax, the federal sales tax and the VAT tax.

    I wonder how it works with states like mine that don't have a sales tax?
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