McConnell may in his own mumbling way be a mad hatter, but he's anti-tea party.

I was thinking of Mitch McConnell for that role. It wouldn't be a Tea Party without the Mad Hatter.

Setting limits does not change its nature. Letting some people out of it with a limit does nothing to reform the injustice against those paying the most.

Whether or not the "use tax" is abolished there is no excuse to allow state bureaucratic power and jurisdiction to reach outside state borders. That is yet another instance of trying to solve problems caused by government by expanding government power to create more problems.

"Redefining" out of state to mean something else is exactly what they are trying to do. It has even included state residents linking to websites. All of it is intended for state bureaucracies to grab power and jurisdiction reaching outside state borders. That is a fact they do not want "redefined".

ewv...Please review my Law:
http://www.plusaf.com/falklaws.htm#33rd

If a State just ReDefines what They Mean by Out-Of-State Business to mean 'any company that delivers a product or service into their state, Everyone from Amazon to Etsy vendors get sucked into that black hole.

and it's "measurable" so they can figure out how to apply a tax. Simple as that...

Cheers!

We are talking about the anti-carbon hysteria driving more punitive government restrictions and imposed costs in the name of a phony "market". Indulgences to soak people for unearned guilt is a very old idea.

It has nothing whatsoever to do with that.

"The "use tax" should be abolished."
Yes. I find it is the most onerous, nit-picking part of taxes. Even setting a limit under which it could be ignored would make it easier.

All the allusions to "Mad March" raise the spectacle of Trump as the Mad March Hare. Where is the Mad Hatter when we need him to put a lid on the hare?

States do not have authority to collect taxes from out of state businesses and should not be given such authority. The scandals of the IRS are not new to what state tax agencies have been doing to innocent people for years, leaving the victims with no recourse against state-sponsored bullying and shake downs. Especially vulnerable have been non-resident property owners who can't vote.

Expanding this authority to harass and intimidate across state borders under a maze of a multitude of different complex state regulations enforced by unaccountable incompetent and often malicious state bureaucrats is a nightmare of statism and violation of civil rights.

States don't dare try to enforce the so-called "use tax" against the large majority of residents who do not "voluntarily" pay it. They are looking to impose the burden of collection on out of state businesses with no recourse against them.

Expanding state tax authority across state borders only serves to put the burden on businesses to enforce the illegitimate, unenforceable so-called "use tax" substituting for illegal sales taxes. The result is a massive tax increase posturing as an "existing duty" to pay the unenforceable and mostly unpaid "use tax", which for all practical purposes does not exist as a current tax.

The "use tax" should be abolished, not expanded into what would for all practical purposes be a massive new tax in a bureaucratic nightmare.

The carbon tax-credit scheme is the reincarnation of the corruption of institutionalized Indulgences, turning the meaningless into guilt and punishment.

Government exists for the purpose of furthering the finances of government, its minions (employees), and its power

Government uses manipulation and propaganda to turn us all into sheep who will allow them to take what they want and order us around.

No wonder Trump has so much support. People are tired of all this, and they need to realize that government operates for itself, and could care less about the citizens.

Call this view unpatriotic and politically incorrect, but I think its far closer to the truth that what we hear from government people.

I voted in more than one. I assumed that it was a
choice between 2 every time.

Dear jdg:
Are you really surprised that Mr. & Ms. USA are getting f'd over tax-wise? It's been happening for so long it doesn't even make the back pages anymore.

Exactly!

I could not vote in this. There was not an all of the above selection for voting.

No, CG, if someone invennts a way to lower the carbon output of coal, the Hillary idiots will just increase the tax rate. It has nothing to do with carbon emissions or their effects. It is all about power over people by looters who haven't produced anything but suffering. Yet you still plan to vote for the skanky, lying, thieving slut. Just leave. You have repeatedly proven you do not deserve a place in the Gulch.

"Wind Production Tax Credit "
I think they just tax carbon emissions according to some formula that's the best guess for the damage the emissions cause. They should offset that by lower taxes on income (i.e. work and investment). There would be no need for the gov't to pick winners among wind, solar, nuclear, etc. If someone comes up with a widget that produces energy or captures carbon, he can help people avoid the tax or get a credit from people who need to burn fossil fuels or cut down trees. Then if someone has a great idea for a valuable product that requires burning coal, he can do it without gov't red tape.

"would allow states to impose an internet sales tax on businesses with no presence in their state"
My state requires residents to pay taxes on catalog/internet purchases out of state. I think most states require this. I used to just go down my checkbook and add up everything that was an out-of-state vendor. But now many purchases from, say, Amazon, were from vendors who had a presence in WI, so I already paid the tax at the time of sale. I find this confusing and onerous to keep track of. They should tax it all at the point of sale, if they're going to tax it at all. This year I'm probably an accidental tax evader because I had no idea how to add up purchases that didn't collect the tax.

Where is the place to vote for the new 1095 form in the taxpayer madness tournament?