

  (Source: Stuart Isett/The New York Times )
Amazon says these sales taxes are "unconstitutional and counterproductive"









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RE: As always...
By lightfoot on 6/30/2011 5:47:23 PM , Rating: 1
He never said that Use Taxes were unconstitutional.

He said that it is Unconstitutional for states to force out of state entities to act as taxing agents on their behalf.

Most states already have Use Taxes, the problem is that they don't enforce them. If a state can't even collect their own revenue properly and legally how can you expect them to do anything properly or legally.

States have broad power to tax the snot out of their own residents. What they don't have the power to do is to tax entities that are outside of their borders.

RE: As always...
By Motoman on 6/30/2011 6:54:13 PM , Rating: 3
He never said that Use Taxes were unconstitutional.

Yeah he did. And he just said it again. ^^

He has actually managed to delude himself into thinking that use taxes are illegal - and he provides inapplicable federal code to "support" it (and refuses to recognize that it's inapplicable), and he ignores the fact that there's no legal precedence to uphold his claim either.

Your other points are correct though. It would seem that you fully understand the use tax, and it's legality. Reclaimer doesn't, willfully so.

