Here It Comes: a Web Sales Tax »
Posted By TechnologyExpert 6 months, 3 weeks ago in Business & FinanceWith states needing as much revenue as possible during this recession, it looks like Congress is now ready to move in the direction of creating a sort of "Internet sales tax," forcing e-tailers such as Amazon.com, eBay and the like to collect sales tax on purchases even if the buyer is from a state where the e-tailer has no brick-and-mortar presence.
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calitennflo6 months, 3 weeks ago
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The 14th Amendment
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Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
The federal Government is not at leisure to tax us...as No state may abridge immunities and priveleges, nor shall they...as they enforce this law.
Amendment XVI
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
Does this make sense...are they coherent?-
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Endoscopy6 months, 3 weeks ago
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This is a stupid red herring post.
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The 14th amendment does not say that the government can't charge a tax. It has to use due process. Create the law and then enforce it. The 16th amendment creates the possibility of an income tax that is not equal for everyone. Up until the income tax was created all taxes were on things and were paid equally by everybody that bought the item. These were import duties etc. Read your history and really read what the constitution says.
This federally mandated sales tax for the internet buying is just about impossible to implement correctly. States, counties, cities, and other local government entities can impose a sales tax. The article stated that in 1992 there were 6000 different sales and tax use jurisdictions. This is an impossible imposition on the out of state retailers. Gathering that tax and sending it to all of those places would be an impossible task.
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calitennflo6 months, 3 weeks ago
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Amendment X
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The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
I think they should give up! We are "We The People" not the Courts or government. ref:ww.law.cornell.edu -
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