assuming your joking....the deficit will never be fixed,nor will any debt be paid,which the debt is nothing more than an illusion.....money that is created out of thin air and backed by NOTHING.
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assuming your joking....the deficit will never be fixed,nor will any debt be paid,which the debt is nothing more than an illusion.....money that is created out of thin air and backed by NOTHING.
comicbookguy
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Will eBay buyers have to pay taxes on purchases?
FLOSI
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What Ben said.
Knowing eBay and its love affair with buyers, I can see them taking taxes out in the back end and adding it to the already absurd eBay/Paypal fees sellers pay. In other words, the sales tax might appear to not even go into effect for buyers, while sellers may be expected to charge more for what they sell to offset this. Currently sellers can optionally add a tax option to the amount they charge buyers. It's also possible eBay forces all items sold to have a tax charge levied to buyers along with base sale and shipping costs. That's what eBay desperately wants to avoid, because it would affect their bottom line.
lerath666
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Short answer, Yes.
lerath666
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Just like to add.
BRILLIANT IDEA to "help" our already failing economy.
Charge people who can BARELY afford anything as it is, More Taxes!
THIS is washington right now.
BRILLIANT IDEA to "help" our already failing economy.
Charge people who can BARELY afford anything as it is, More Taxes!
THIS is washington right now.
jimmie_dimmick
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Taxes pay for infrastructure. Infrastructure creates jobs. 
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Taxes pay for infrastructure. Infrastructure creates jobs.
Yay more minimum wage jobs taken by illegal immigrants that refuse to learn to speak the English language.
Taxes pay for infrastructure. Infrastructure creates jobs.
who brainwashed you to believe that??
Taxes are taken from slave serfs...as long as you are taxed,you are not Free
Income is already illegally taxed,why should we be taxed some more?
RJMacReady16
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If you're pulling the wagon rather than riding in it, then "yes".
comicbookguy
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lerath666
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Taxes pay for infrastructure. Infrastructure creates jobs.
HA. No. Well.. not exactly, and not in any meaningful, long term way.
Jobs are part of an Ecosystem that is based entirely on sales and services, and people being able to afford them.
IE, the more you buy, the more volume the sellers need, and more money thay have. they then take that money and increase their jobs they offer to offset that volume. Idealy paying their staff enough to purchase whatever goods and services they're selling .
Henry ford was chastised by his peers when he paid his factory workers as much as he did, and charged as little as he did for his early cars.. but he did it so they could afford to pay him to buy the very same cars they were building. I think we all kn ow how that worked out in the long run.
Ford motor Company is a household name these days.
As for taxes builinding infastructure, while that's true, and to physicaly build said infastructure we need to hire on people to do the manual labor to get it built. this is a HUGE process and undertaking, and creates TONS of short-term jobs.
but that's the importan detail there. Tons of SHORT-TERM jobs. once the infastructure is built ( Highways, roads, parks, etc) a skeleton crew is then hired on to maintain and upkeep these... becuase it costs next to nothing.
Fixing the economy could be better served if consumers are allowed to put as much money into it directly as possible.
you want to fix the economy overnight?
A Tax and debt Jubilee would do it.
But I digress.
In super short
Infastructure building creates short term teparay jobs, and gives a temp boost to the economy. it's a bandaid, not a fix.
an economy will only support as many jobs as it realisticly can.
A Stable, thriving economic ecosystem which is slowly growwing will support far more jobs for longer, than one in a weakened unstable state like the American one currently is.
Really?I thought it was only or sellers.
Who will charge buyers more to offset that cost. likely also boosing their overall sale prices as well, becuase if they need to charge 5$ more to ofset tax, when noy charge 6, or 7, or 10, and pocket the rest?
hokietwo
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Actually to the contrary infrastructure is by far the most important thing to a growing economy. American capitalism as it is grew and thrived because of its advanced infrastrucutres.
Think about transportation. We started with carriage, roads, rail, boat and then plane. By investing the money in infrastructure sure there is short term job growth, however, by expanding and improving infrastructure we can now access roads that lead to new land for manufacturing, solar, nuclear, and other high technology job creation. These benefits will keep manufacturing stateside by offering lower cost production and distribution from imports/exports of goods and cheaper aquisition of sourcing materials such as oil, metals and resin.
Distribution and transportation of goods and services is paramount and by having the infrastructure to strategically place warehouses for distribution saves money for businesses and gets goods to customers faster.
What seems like a small thing with working on roads and power grids will pay very large dividends in the future with permanent jobs from the growth out of these projects.
One thing folks often ignore for one reason or another is the fact that society functions reasonably well, in large measure, because government does those things for the "greater good" that people wouldn't do if left to the law of the jungle. Governments are also responsible for a lot of **** such as pork barrel spending that benefits only themselves and their influential buddies, the military industrial complex, special interests that buy power and laws, etc. But realistically, that's never going to go away so long as man is man. Governments, broadly speaking, still provide much more good than we would have without them. Anyone who thinks otherwise is trying to live in some ideological fantasy where they are Ayn Rand's super capitalist. Except they ain't.
But of course, there is a great amount of variation over what one person considers a "good" versus another. There is also debate over which governments are best, and how ineffectual the U.S. government is at doing its job. But taxes are critically important if you think a public education--the backbone of national economic wellbeing--matters. Or if you value a reasonably fair system of justice, somewhat breathable air, having a small sliver of our natural environment kept safe from industrial destruction, a police force, national security, some semblance of protection against monopolization of industry, some semblance of worker protection so children don't work in coal mines, some semblance of economic and social protection against catastrophic health crises, etc. Our system ain't perfect, but to suggest that taxes aren't important is something I can't take very seriously. Call me nuts if you will, but I don't want a subsidiary of Wal-Mart or Exxon owning and operating all the schools and courts.
But of course, there is a great amount of variation over what one person considers a "good" versus another. There is also debate over which governments are best, and how ineffectual the U.S. government is at doing its job. But taxes are critically important if you think a public education--the backbone of national economic wellbeing--matters. Or if you value a reasonably fair system of justice, somewhat breathable air, having a small sliver of our natural environment kept safe from industrial destruction, a police force, national security, some semblance of protection against monopolization of industry, some semblance of worker protection so children don't work in coal mines, some semblance of economic and social protection against catastrophic health crises, etc. Our system ain't perfect, but to suggest that taxes aren't important is something I can't take very seriously. Call me nuts if you will, but I don't want a subsidiary of Wal-Mart or Exxon owning and operating all the schools and courts.
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it will only affect people that buy from larger sellers because they will be required to collect tax for your state. this will actually BENEFIT smaller sellers because if a buyer had a choice to buy from a large retailer or a smaller seller less the tax, he'd probably do business with the smaller seller.
now as a buyer, you can avoid paying the imposed tax if you buy from a smaller seller.
now as a buyer, you can avoid paying the imposed tax if you buy from a smaller seller.
Why would only "larger" sellers be required to pay? How are you defining "large" seller?
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i don't remember the exact cutoff figures. i believe they are $20,000 in sales or 200 transactions in any calendar year. check with ebay. has the legislation been passed?
hokietwo
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This is going to cause major issues for small business. Now every transaction the small business makes is going to be taxed at the point of origin locale and the state they live in.
There will now be more complex tax accounting and reporting which will lead to confusion of the laws and in the spirit of competion "economies of scale" will definitely take over.
If I am a SBA profile business, this internet tax is terrible, terrible news. Their revenues will be substantially lowered and they will have to compete on price. Volume retailers and larger business will price smaller business out with the addition of this new internet tax model. IMO. Shipping discounts for high volume retailers alone for example can help them be cheaper than the small businesses in many business models with the leveling of the playing field this tax will place into markets.
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DrQ2
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This would all depend on if they are to charge local state tax. Or the tax from the state of ordering? This would also mean after they get the tax money are they to send it to their local tax. Or the buyers state tax people.
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