Doesn't matter. It's a red herring. Taxes aren't about "fair". They are about bringing money into the government.
BTW, I recently saw a YouTube video about "Malicious Compliance" meaning wh at employees do when the company insists on ignoring your inputs and orderi ng you to do stupid things. Finally the employee gives up and does exactly what they've been ordered and let things go to crap.
I don't remember what story I wanted to relate about that, but the stories are pretty amazing. It had something to do with competing.
A lot of people are afraid of selling over the Internet since you have to u se credit cards and more likely some service like PayPal which allows you t o be ripped off by the unscrupulous.
I have no special admiration of local businesses. They are just people and some people are good, others suck. Whether they stay around seldom has an ything to do with me even if I try to help. Most small businesses are doom ed to failure because the owners have no idea how to run their business... which brings us back to "Malicious Compliance" videos. One included a guy working as a dishwasher in a coffee shop for a new owner who didn't want to be the manager or pay a manager. This guy was constantly overworked but b ecause it was his first job he didn't know it. One day the owner comes in and the place is slammed, the dishwasher is washing stuff by hand just so t he baristas can have something NOW. The owner tells the guy to clear table s and sweep, etc and takes over on the dishwasher. 15 minutes later they o wner is nearly in tears and begs the dishwasher to come back in the kitchen and resume making it work. lol The owner never yelled at him again.
In defense of SCOTUS they are not going to allow states to require *every* seller to collect taxes. There are thresholds (which seem to be set by the states?). I think Maryland is setting a $200,000 per year and some quanti ty of shipments minimum which will drop to $100,000 per year in the near fu ture. I think I read other states are similar. So the "mom and pop" store s can avoid the cost and hassle of knowing all the taxing jurisdictions whi ch are a lot more than just the states. I'm sure I've said before that cou nties and even cities get into the act with sales tax. So there are going to be services that calculate the tax and likely skim the tax from the sale and convey it to the jurisdiction. I think MD requires quarterly sales ta x payments. I could have done it all over the Internet if I had anything t o report, but because I never collected tax on my B2B sales I had to file w ith paper including a form that said I understood that I had the option of filing paperlessly or something equally MASH like. Sign here, initial here , here and here, then sign to say you initialed instead of signing.
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The state sees it as "sales" that they aren't getting their fair share of t ax from. It's that simple. There is something going on that they weren't allowed to tax and it got bigger every year.
In most states we are taxed on the money when we make it. We are taxed on the money when we spend it. We are taxed for the simple fact that we own s ome things. We are taxed because we use some stuff that isn't ours. I'm n ot certain, but I believe we are taxed (or have to pay fees) simply because we exist and can't live without doing some things we are taxed on.
Give it a try sometime. Shove a bunch of money in your pocket, say $10,000 and leave your home to sleep in a tent someplace where you aren't charged, like along the Appalachian trail. See how much of that money still goes t o paying taxes... I mean if you aren't arrested for having that much cash o n you. Or the cops simply take your money without arresting you. Civil As set Forfeiture: another SCOTUS c*ck up if there ever was one.
Sometimes living in a "free" country doesn't feel so free.
Everything's free in America For a slight fee in America