Comments on: Misery Loves Company http://www.showmedaily.org/2009/01/misery-loves-company.html Advancing liberty with responsibility by promoting market solutions for Missouri public policy Wed, 23 May 2012 17:39:11 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Clovis Ouangraoua http://www.showmedaily.org/2009/01/misery-loves-company.html/comment-page-1#comment-1536 Clovis Ouangraoua Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:37:55 +0000 http://www.showmedaily.org/?p=2675#comment-1536 It's just nonsense how government and the institutions go extreme to design templates to collect revenues to face their budget's deficiencies. What should then happen to international buyers? Should we levy a tax on a purchase made from Moldova based on US commercial internet tax rule? What would be the checks and balances governing such a tax? So far as I know the sky is the limit when dealing with the World Wide Web. The internet is world property not governement or the State. I do wander if it's even constitutional to do it. Oh my Lord, help us in this economic debacle. It’s just nonsense how government and the institutions go extreme to design templates to collect revenues to face their budget’s deficiencies. What should then happen to international buyers? Should we levy a tax on a purchase made from Moldova based on US commercial internet tax rule? What would be the checks and balances governing such a tax? So far as I know the sky is the limit when dealing with the World Wide Web. The internet is world property not governement or the State. I do wander if it’s even constitutional to do it. Oh my Lord, help us in this economic debacle.

]]> By: Joe Nonnenkamp http://www.showmedaily.org/2009/01/misery-loves-company.html/comment-page-1#comment-1530 Joe Nonnenkamp Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:18:29 +0000 http://www.showmedaily.org/?p=2675#comment-1530 The notion that the state "loses" revenue when internet sales go untaxed is just collectivist nonsense, the idea that all money is owned by the state. Keep the internet free! The notion that the state “loses” revenue when internet sales go untaxed is just collectivist nonsense, the idea that all money is owned by the state. Keep the internet free!

]]> By: Phil Eckelkamp http://www.showmedaily.org/2009/01/misery-loves-company.html/comment-page-1#comment-1513 Phil Eckelkamp Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:04:00 +0000 http://www.showmedaily.org/?p=2675#comment-1513 Nick, Int'l Shoe is a good example that states should have to actually have contact in order to have jurisdiction. I think your analogy can apply to the back taxes but at the same time Int'l shoe may be overturned totally within the next few years or if not formally overturned, gutted to impotency due to the spread of online sales. Are we now going to allow jurisdiction on anyone because their product can be bought anywhere on the internet? I certainly hope not. If I sell a widget in Missouri at a traditional store then I should reasonably expect a tax for all the services I use here. But if ship a widget to colorado I don't believe that I should have to pay a tax there because I don't use any services there. So much about taxing internet products is a bad idea that it is hard to believe that someone would take the idea seriously. Nick,
Int’l Shoe is a good example that states should have to actually have contact in order to have jurisdiction. I think your analogy can apply to the back taxes but at the same time Int’l shoe may be overturned totally within the next few years or if not formally overturned, gutted to impotency due to the spread of online sales. Are we now going to allow jurisdiction on anyone because their product can be bought anywhere on the internet? I certainly hope not. If I sell a widget in Missouri at a traditional store then I should reasonably expect a tax for all the services I use here. But if ship a widget to colorado I don’t believe that I should have to pay a tax there because I don’t use any services there. So much about taxing internet products is a bad idea that it is hard to believe that someone would take the idea seriously.

]]> By: Nick Loyal http://www.showmedaily.org/2009/01/misery-loves-company.html/comment-page-1#comment-1512 Nick Loyal Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:49:28 +0000 http://www.showmedaily.org/?p=2675#comment-1512 See...you have to talk about this right after I get done reading International Shoe, don't you? Minimal Contacts? Anyone? Granted, that may only apply to the jurisdiction of courts, but what's to stop the Missouri Treasury from filing a claim against Amazon or Best Buy for back taxes owed? See…you have to talk about this right after I get done reading International Shoe, don’t you?

Minimal Contacts? Anyone? Granted, that may only apply to the jurisdiction of courts, but what’s to stop the Missouri Treasury from filing a claim against Amazon or Best Buy for back taxes owed?

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