I have a purchase at Amazon for about a week ago and while I check out, came the news that interest me, from 1 June 2008 said that Amazon would have to collect a sales tax for New York State residents. I had heard about this "Amazon tax" a few weeks ago and was disgusted by it. Amazon has in New York on the basis that the law is unconstitutional sued, I'm really glad that Amazon resists. All items in this that I have read, especially to discuss the legality of the law andComplexity. I'm going to look at them a little differently. What does this mean for us humans?
The short is that this tax is bad for us. There are almost never a tax that is good for us because the prices of goods we buy increases. I live in New York City and I buy books, especially from Amazon and Barnes & Nobles - I even have one of these B & N member card. I decide to get the dealer to based on price and urgency. Amazon offers us a means to raise money for the same goods and save thephysical stores satisfy our urgent needs. This system is working pretty well as greedy governments get some taxes and we get to save some of our money. A better system would be one with no sales taxes at all.
New York State estimates that this tax will bring in an addition $50 million. What this really means is that this law will steal an extra $50 million dollars from our wallets. There is a possibility that Amazon purchases from New York will decline a little and that $50 million may never come to fruition. Personally I'm torn as I love what Amazon was able to do - offer great products and great services at reasonable prices - but I despise the government has no money left.
If $ 50 million U.S. dollars is better suited in the hands of the state or in our hands? Give the answer most people would be that it is better, would agree in our hands and the science. Especially in our current economic situation, with skyrocketing prices at the supermarket and at the pump. We, the peopleNeed to be kept any longer - if not all - of our own hard-earned money. The state is wasting just about to finish most of them with pet projects, it is useless or they smuggle lobbyists. The net benefit for us will be negative.
There are many discussions on Amazon discussion boards about the tax and contribution in particular caught my eye. It summarizes the number of this tax. K. Crawford said: "There are a number of posters that need to here as state employees because they pay you [a] tax would like youare not required to pay. "This is the big problem of socialism, which are employed by the state to act in their best interest and in this case, it is to take money from you so they can have a bigger paycheck - that is the point of this tax . No matter what laws are on the books, no laws that are not in conformity with the Constitution is void. The Tenth Amendment does not allow the state to places duties on another state, which is exactly what this law does.
This tax is good forGovernment. Bad for Amazon. And the worst thing was bad for us.
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