On 11/23/2011 03:02 AM, Caesar Romano wrote:
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:14:04 -0800 (PST),
wrote Re OT Amazon to begin charging state sales tax:

On Nov 22, 9:59 pm, John wrote:
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/InternetSalesTa

They are "not raising taxes" they are "just helping to collect
taxes". There is a big difference...

That initiative is well under way nationwide.

The states have quietly joined together to create this entity (below),
whose purpose is to create a system to collect sales tax for your
state on all your purchases, no matter whose goods you buy:
http://www.streamlinedsalestax.org/

Here's current legislation:
http://www.streamlinedsalestax.org/i...t01returnid=74

It's coming, folks.

Bricks& Mortar retailers are big supporters of that legislation. But
it won't matter. On-line retail merchants will still beat the B&M
sellers in price/selection/convenience.

yup... whatever scheme they come up with I'm OK with so long as it's
fair and doesn't put anyone at a disadvantage. The only reason that
there's such a huge issue w/ sales taxes is because the B&M stores are
so incredibly overpriced that people are flocking to online merchants in
droves. Even if you add 5% or whatever to online prices to allow for
sales tax on many items it's still not worth driving to the store. Just
one example would be cables - I just bought a lot of HDMI, optical
S/PDIF, and RCA cables online for about what just three HDMI cables
would cost me in a store - and for the same cost as store prices...
alternately if I were going high end for about the same as what a B&M
store charges for generic stuff I could get the real high end stuff from
Blue Jeans Cable. This isn't a unique example... it's true for a lot of
items.

nate

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