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foxmuldar says:

July 12, 2011 at 2:45 pm

The Libtards wanted to do the same thing to Amazon here in Pennsylvania but Governor Corbett turned them down. Now Amazon says they will add jobs in Pa because of Corbetts decision.

http://www.fox43.com/news/wpmt-amazon-hiring-allentown,0,1437454.story
baseballguy says:

July 12, 2011 at 4:30 pm

You absolutely cannot fix stupid or democrap – they are one and the same.
FREEDOM4USA says:

July 12, 2011 at 5:37 pm

I had read about his tax law the day it was passed. I completely Agree with you. It is part of the socialist plan to kill all private sector business and then comes the government overhaul. Have you looked into Herman Cain for president? He is a true conservative, and understands how over regulation kills a business’s potential profitability. please check this link out http://www.politifact.com/trut?h-o-meter/article
Dana says:

July 12, 2011 at 5:49 pm

Sorry, Phineas, but you missed it: this was all part of the plan anyway! California wants to decrease sales made through Amazon and similar online vendors, and increase them among the brick-and-mortar stores within the state, where the sales tax is collected. How much income tax do you think the Pyrite State will lose, vis a vis how much additional sales tax they anticipate making? With y’all’s sales tax at over 10% in some places, that’s a lot of potential revenue!
Dana says:

July 12, 2011 at 5:51 pm

Foxmuldar: I live in the Keystone State, too, and our state income tax forms have a place where we are supposed to report all non-taxed online purchases, and then remit the unpaid sales tax to Harrisburg. If you have bought anything via Amazon, that means you. Have you complied?
Phineas says:

July 12, 2011 at 5:55 pm

California wants to decrease sales made through Amazon and similar online vendors, and increase them among the brick-and-mortar stores within the state, where the sales tax is collected.

I know Wal-Mart was one of the big boosters of this, but, if they think it will increase sales at physical stores, they’re high. It only punishes affiliates who made a bit of coin through referral links. As a customer of Amazon (or whomever), it makes no difference to me.
Dana says:

July 12, 2011 at 5:55 pm

Phineas wrote:

And it will hurt those families and small businesses making a bit of money from their affiliate relationships.

Maybe so, but when it comes to a choice of collecting more tax revenue or not hurting those families and small businesses making a bit of money from their affiliate relationships, which one did you expect your state legislators to choose?
Dana says:

July 12, 2011 at 6:01 pm

Phineas wrote:

I know Wal-Mart was one of the big boosters of this, but, if they think it will increase sales at physical stores, they’re high. It only punishes affiliates who made a bit of coin through referral links. As a customer of Amazon (or whomever), it makes no difference to me.

Actually, it does. Amazon is saying that Hell no, they won’t collect the sales tax, but watch for incremental price increases; they are going to be sued by California for those taxes which your fine state says should have been withheld, and they will need to start socking away money just in case they lose that suit and have to pay the taxes.

And watch for California and other states to lobby Congress for legislation which allows states to designate the point of sale as the delivery address, and be able to require the sales tax be collected.
nina says:

July 12, 2011 at 9:15 pm

Beautiful state dumb communist people.

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