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Various Non-Bald Discussions => General Discussion => Topic started by: Tyler on July 01, 2011, 02:03:01 PM
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Here is my recent blog post, which includes a letter I wrote to Jerry Brown. While we normally don't allow politics on SBG, this particular issue directly affects SBG.
http://www.slybaldguys.com/serendipity/index.php?/archives/279-Governor-Jerry-Brown-is-not-Sly.html
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Love the plug for SBG in the ps! Awesome T!
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Good job!!
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Haha, beautiful. I thoroughly enjoyed how direct you were with the guv in making reference to "greediness". More people need to let these scoundrels know that we're on to them and their dirty games.
Bravo! O0
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According to the news reports on PBS's Morning Edition the California bricks and mortar merchants pushed this bill through the legislature in the belief that internet sales that are exempt from local sales taxes: 1) give the internet marketer an advantage equal to the amount of the tax, and 2) let the internet marketer use the local brick and mortar shop as a show room when the purchaser goes inspects the merchandise and then buys on line. They do have a point. However, at an elemental level a tax should only be leveed if the governing and taxing body provides a real and substantive service for the charge. I haven't heard what service connection exists for internet sales.
This is going on nationwide, particularly in the current revenue crunch that is effecting every level of government causing layoffs of vital personnel in some instances. Apparently Amazon isn't totally against the payment of taxes but has a problem with the incredible diversity of tax rates and charges in the fifty states--a very good point. The only problem for Amazon that I see is that they 1) still have offices in CA, and based on that alone may be subject to the CA tax in the final analysis, and 2) they lose sales--bc if nothing else they need to have the links to make their business model work.
Poor Governor Moonbean, losing his hair and losing money for the State--he could shave one problem, but how does he balance the budget. He should have learned long ago from Senator Russell Long, (D-LA) who wisely observed, "Don't tax me and I won't tax thee, we'll tax that man behind the tree!" Cynical, but true.
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Amazon should have to pay taxes if they have operations in CA and someone from CA buys something. I'm OK with that. Though, they should not have to pay taxes because an affiliate they pay through 1099 lives here and helps initiate a purchase between Amazon and a person in a state other than CA.
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I heard that Amazon cut off ties with close to 6,000 CA based companies because of this manuever by our 3rd term governor (though legally he shouldn't have been allowed to run again...god bless loopholes).
Our state is so f**ked.
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I heard that Amazon cut off ties with close to 6,000 CA based companies because of this manuever by our 3rd term governor (though legally he shouldn't have been allowed to run again...god bless loopholes).
Our state is so f**ked.
Yep! 6000 companies and 25,000+ individuals.
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The only good thing Jerry bBrown has ever done is date Linda Ronstadt before she got fat.
He's a dumb ass.