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Krogoth wrote:It is only a matter of time before state governments in the USA start cracking down to people who don't report taxes from online commerce.
Captain Ned wrote:Avoid R&P on internet sales taxes?? How??
Current SCOTUS precedent (Quill Corp. v. North Dakota) requires a physical nexus in a state for said state to mandate collection of its sales taxes on online purchases in that state. On April 17, SCOTUS will hear South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc., with the sole question for decision being the continued existence of Quill's physical nexus doctrine.
Welch wrote:Really sweet of them to not be able to refund me the taxes too, even though I can provide them information that the taxes don't apply. The whole getting taxed online thing is getting stupid, because these e-tailers don't even know the laws by which they are required or whom they are suppose to tax.
It blows my mind that someone who buys a $194 item is taxed almost $20 on that. Glad I don't like in WA, that stuff is for the birds...
Welch wrote:It blows my mind that someone who buys a $194 item is taxed almost $20 on that. Glad I don't like in WA, that stuff is for the birds...
Welch wrote:Overall our taxes are near none existant, which in my opinion is how it should mostly be.
ludi wrote:Now if only more states could just discover massive oil reserves relative to their population density and then route the profits through a well-managed public benefit fund
adampk17 wrote:ludi wrote:Now if only more states could just discover massive oil reserves relative to their population density and then route the profits through a well-managed public benefit fund
I was gonna say.....
Welch wrote:Yeah we have oil..
Welch wrote:Yeah we have oil... But every state has something that is worth lots of money... They just didn't manage it like Alaska did.
ludi wrote:I have a strange love/hate view on Alaskans, in part due to having several family/friend relationships with them.
ludi wrote:they live in a pristine libertarian paradise.
biffzinker wrote:ludi wrote:they live in a pristine libertarian paradise.
I'd like to know where all of these libertarians or liberals are since I happen across more conservatives in public.
adampk17 wrote:Oh, and being as that I'm from Washington state, thanks for the $20.
edit: reread your post, I guess it was $40.
Glorious wrote:ludi wrote:I have a strange love/hate view on Alaskans, in part due to having several family/friend relationships with them.
I've always envisioned Alaska as this strange, near-mythical, land that attracts malcontents and itinerants and is home to solitary off-the-grid folks that occasionally lose their mind and start murdering their (thankfully sparse) neighbors.
(only half-serious)
ludi wrote:Uhm, in the entire world, I can think of only two locations that had the right combination of mineral resource wealth, politics, and population density to do what Alaska has done, and the other one is Norway. That's called being an "outlier," not a "model."
Glorious wrote:Welch wrote:Yeah we have oil..
...which Alaska taxes. Heavily.
It's not that Alaska really has "less" taxes, it is that it has a industry-specific tax you just happen to not pay personally.
Also: Mineral extraction isn't transportable. Essentially all other industry is.
Other states don't have the luxury of taxing any given industry to the tune of ~25% (it's complicated obviously, but that's roughly the historical percentage of how much revenue has Alaskan has gained from the industry over the years versus the gross market value of what has been exported--the official rate is like 35% or something).
Why?
They'd just go next door and set up shop.
ludi wrote:Welch wrote:Yeah we have oil... But every state has something that is worth lots of money... They just didn't manage it like Alaska did.
Uhm, in the entire world, I can think of only two locations that had the right combination of mineral resource wealth, politics, and population density to do what Alaska has done, and the other one is Norway. That's called being an "outlier," not a "model."
I have a strange love/hate view on Alaskans, in part due to having several family/friend relationships with them.
On one hand, Alaska is a beautiful state and Alaskans are generally some of the most easy-going, helpful, and friendly people you'll ever meet, provided the ones you meet are those who escaped the trap of self-medicating for the climate and latitude.
On the other hand, any who live there long enough to receive permanent resident funds ("What are those?", ask the other 49 states), whether native born or transplanted, seem to pick up some bizarre idea that they live in a pristine libertarian paradise. They have no idea just how much Alaska is exceptional in every possible category (population density, resource wealth, climate, etc.).
Welch wrote:Becoming an "Alaskan" is sort of like making it through a dare or challenge, you have an underlying respect for each other measured in the number of years you've lived here, I've hit 19 years which is a good start.
biffzinker wrote:Welch wrote:Becoming an "Alaskan" is sort of like making it through a dare or challenge, you have an underlying respect for each other measured in the number of years you've lived here, I've hit 19 years which is a good start.
26 years been here since 1992