Comments on: Martin O’Malley (D, MD) pushing for Amazon tax.

By: brendanob

brendanob — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:50:31 +0000

No sales tax on anybody. And while we do have a Dem governor, our Republican house and Senate render him essentially powerless (Yay!).

By: Adjoran

Adjoran — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 05:07:05 +0000

Any well-prepared legislator should be familiar with all of the details mentioned. It’s no new issue.

Of course, it is mainly pushed by Democrats, who are both corrupt and stupid, and will grasp at any straw to avoid cutting one drop of the flow of honey to their constituencies which have no earthly reason to support them should the honey flow stop.

By: carolina

carolina — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 21:41:04 +0000

By: acat

acat — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:34:39 +0000

(no, it’s not in the DSM-4, not likely DSM-5. Hopefully, DSM-6…)

Mew

(oh, and for the unfamiliar, DSM is Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the numbers refer to the revision, 4 is current, 5 is not yet released…)

By: plwinteregg

plwinteregg — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:20:24 +0000

…is to keep doing the same thing expecting different results. There are probably two explanations for why these states keep committing revenue suicide on this: 1) they either are really that stupid or aren’t paying attention; 2) they are doing this intentionally as a diversion from the real problem those states have—TOO MUCH SPENDING!

How convenient to continue the meme that the budget problems are due to ‘(fill in the blank)’ not paying enough taxes. As long as they can line up enough targets, they are hoping to divert the slubs not paying attention from the real issue of bloated, inefficient, often unconstitutional spending.

I heard one such liberal voicing glee in these states lining up for this exercise in futility, believing that eventually with enough states doing this Amazon will have to acquiesce and begin collecting these sales taxes.

However, this ignores the very fluid nature of internet/e-commerce. Amazon will simply find other ways to drive in traffic, including the very real possibility that this type of business will move out of the country or die altogether. Kind of hard to collect taxes on a business that no longer exists, dontcha think?

I own an e-commerce business, and I was being contacted by some of the 25,000 affiliates cut off from income in CA who are now desperate to replace that lost income before the ink was even dry on the bill.

Insanity, indeed.

By: romeg

romeg — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:57:13 +0000

has been discredited by the Left. In the world of Unicorns and Pixie dust this is a Winning Issue for the Dems. Just because a tax increase produces No increase in Tax Revenue or even causes a DECLINE is no reason to not have the law on the books. It allows lawmakers to thump their chests and say “Lookee what I did. I really showed those internet retailers, didn’t I.”