[THEREGISTER.CO.UK] The US House of Representatives has approved a bill that will permanently bar states from collecting taxes on internet sales.
The House on Friday gave its approval for HR 644, a trade bill that has been amended to include a permanent renewal of the Internet Tax Freedom Act. Part of the Trade Facilitation and Enforcement Act of 2015, the bill won the approval of the House by a vote of 156-158.
In passing the bill, the House also approved the renewal of the act that bars state and local governments from taxing internet access. First passed in 1998, the Internet Tax Freedom Act has been renewed several times since.
The most controversial element of the act includes the limit on the collection of sales tax, barring states from collecting tax for online transactions made out-of-state. The law, credited with helping online giants including Amazon to become retail powerhouses, has been criticized by state governments and retailers for giving internet sellers an unfair advantage over brick-and-mortar stores that have to pay tax.
The bill will now move on to the Senate for consideration. Should it pass, the bill would then go to the President for approval.
Backers of the law, including Congressman Ron Wyden (D-OR), hailed the passage and asked voters to prod members of the Senate to keep the Internet Tax Freedom Act permanent.
"The ban on internet access taxes expires in just a few days, and there's a good chance this fight over sales taxes could sink the law that has helped the internet grow and thrive," Wyden said.
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Wow. Somebody got something right.
Whadaya know, guess elections do have positive consequences as well.
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The 'who bought it' and 'bought from' states couldn't agree on a distribution ration. When the web gets nationalized by the FCC the use tax will go to the feds.
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It's easy for the feds to tell the states what the states cannot tax. Not so easy for the feds to rein in their own spending.
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Where do you tax? The seller's location, the server farm where the transaction was processed, the warehouse from which it was sent, the residence of where it was delivered*? Too many greedy hands in play.
Quill Corp. v. North Dakota, 504 U.S. 298 (1992), was a United States Supreme Court ruling concerning use tax. Quill Corporation is an office supply retailer. Quill had no physical presence in North Dakota (neither a sales force, nor a retail outlet),[1] but it had a licensed computer software program that some of its North Dakota customers used for checking Quill's current inventories and placing orders directly. North Dakota attempted to impose a use tax on Quill, which was struck down by the Supreme Court.... - wiki
The states understand that as they expose their own claim of taxation on interstate commerce, the Feds may well step in and hog it all. The states that are willing to provide cover for interstate commerce will get the business and employment taxes rather than any form of sales tax other than products sold within the state via Quill.
* if I buy product x in the neighboring state and carry it back home, should I have to pay my local tax on it? Or if I had a friend buy it for me and deliver it to me, should I still have to pay local tax on it? If not a friend, any interstate carriers?
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No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.
Section 10, Article I, (of the late) Constitution.
Yes. It's what Adam Smith would do. Of course the tax raised wouldn't be very much as warehouses are in low cost locations, but that's great for consumers.
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I'm in NH, which has no sales tax on transactions of this kind (we do have a meals tax.)
But if I were running a business in Massachusetts, I'd be dismayed that Amazon's effective prices are lower by the amount of the tax - 6.25% - than mine.
Amazon sells most anything these days, with free shipping. I don't even have to drive to the local store and lug the stuff home.
So, they already have the advantage, and this legislation increases it.
I guess Amazon gives a better Beltway lube job than the US Chamber of Commerce lobby.
Yes, collecting multi-state sales tax is a pain in the tail for small internet businesses. But Amazon can afford the infrastructure, they support collecting tax. It increases their advantage over smaller competitors.
In the end, this is good for small internet businesses, neutral for Amazon, and bad for brick and mortar businesses in sales tax states.
[BOSTONHERALD] Sen. Bernie Sanders ...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords... has a dream for America -- his dream, our nightmare.
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Lest we fergit, the "American Dream" is now the "Amerikan Dream" or the "North Amerikan Dream", where Canada + Mexico + Greenland's values-beliefs, etc. are now to be integrated wid that of the US.
Aren't we glad we voted for [US-led Anti-US] OWG-NWO + US-Global Socialist Order!
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Until such time that OWG-NWO = aka Sapce govt-Order is permanently + irrevocably achieved + entrenched, EXPECT THINGS TO GET MUCH WORSE BEFORE THEY GET BETTER.
E.g. the Bammer's mighty defense of his own "red lines" vee Russia, China, + Iran, Etal.
Whatever the Bammer fails to achieve before jan. 2017, in whole or in part, EXPECT ANY SIMILAR ANTI-US US OWG GLOBALIST SUCCESSOR(S) TO DO SO.
DON'T FEAR ANTI-US GLOBALIST OBAMA - FEAR MORE THE ANTI-US GLOBALIST POTUS(ES) WHOM FOLLOW HIM.
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"Here's my favorite: "A new fuel-efficiency standard (for cars) of 65 miles per gallon by 2025."
To get to 65 mpg, the vehicles would have to weigh about as much as that empty aluminum soda...
I'm sorry, but that's nonsense. Those cars already exist, for example the Audi A1 1.6 TDI, the Toyota Yaris Hybrid, the Peugeot 208, the Renault Twingo dCi 85, the VW Polo 1.2 TDI Bluemotion, the Ford Fiesta Econetic 1.6 TDCi, the Smart Fortwo Coupé cdi and a few more.
Sure, these are small city cars, but definitely no tin cans. In ten years we should be able to build bigger cars, which should run fin with one gallon per mile.
That's not a socialist pipe dream, but makes a lot of sense.
Less gas, less dependency on Middle Eastern oil.
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The only openly Socialist member The key word is "openly." The other Donks mask what they are to get elected. They are thus "covertly" or "clandestine" socialists--(or if you like a member of a Fifth Column effort.)
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And even if Bernie's dream comes true and we are all biking 20+ miles to (and back from) work... Oh scratch that - there won't be any jobs and we will all be on government dole using up those freshly printed billion-dollar bills...
Anyway even of Bernie's dream comes true - it wouldn't make a scratch in GloBull Worming. Because it's not man-caused.
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The only openly Socialist member The key word is "openly." The other Donks mask what they are to get elected. They are thus "covertly" or "clandestine" socialists--(or if you like a member of a Fifth Column effort.)
And so Bernie's candidacy could be regarded as a trial balloon so the rest of them can see how far to the left they can go and still get away with it.
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European Conservative, I think you might need to take European diesels off of that list. I suspect (and I'm not alone) that there has been a lot of fudging the numbers the way VW did.
[AMERICANTHINKER] Madness has gripped a segment of the Republican Party that embraces a war on its own voters as unworthy. Instead of blaming himself for a presidential campaign mired at the one percent level of support, failing to make a ripple even in his home state of South Carolina, Senator Lindsey Graham ... the endangered South Carolina RINO... blames the GOP voters who are too driven by irrational, probably racist beliefs. Caitlin Yilek of The Hill reports:
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) says GOP front-runner Donald Trump is doing so well in the polls because nearly half of Republican primary voters think President B.O. is a Kenyan-born Muslim.
"Well there's about 40 percent of the Republican primary voter who believes that Obama was born in Kenya and is a Muslim," Graham told Boston Herald Radio on Friday, according to BuzzFeed News.
"There's just a dislike for President B.O. that is visceral. It's almost irrational," Graham added.
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That's alright Lenny... We have an almost irrational dislike for you too you fking RINO.
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I know everyone is supposed to want a big tent with more voters but at what point can the party decide someone like Graham is a net negative and boot him out of the party.
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70% of the people believe the country is going in the wrong direction and only 25% of the people believe the country is going in the right direction. It's been that way for a long time. These numbers must include independents as well as some Donks as well. Irrational---I don't think so. I agree with the above comment about Graham--"shut your pie hole". There is also a rational reason why Lindsey Graham has never gotten any traction in the primaries or is not POTUS. BTW, the feeling is both visceral and rational.
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Lindsey,
I wouldn't worry about it. Obama has visceral almost irrational hatred for the American middle class.
Anyone who does not realize this is delusional.
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Lindsey, crawl back under your rock and slither back into your den. YOU are part of the problem in America! You want it business as usual for DC, the rape and pillage of our national treasure, the destruction of our values, the dividing of the people and the continuation of blaming everyone else for your problems. GO AWAY!
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
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Having a balanced budget, or even a budget......is so......yesterday. Right Lindsay?
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No to be confused with Lindsey Graham's visceral and irrational dislike of 'his' party's base and their fundamental principles (to include following the Constitution).
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"I'm Senator John McCain, and I authorized this message"
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His stuff needs to be taken away and given to deserving proletariat.
The Big Problem with Obama Socialism is that guys like Lindsay and Zuckerberg and Gates get to keep their stashes and their trust funds while the Little People just keep getting nickel-and-dimed to death. If there were a real Mao capable of taking away their stuff like they were little people, they'd actually bother trying to fight socialism.
I notice the country Mao shaped for forty years doesn't go in for all this Deindustrialization crap.
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