Fair Taxation

[DuncanK]

Goingonit,

Can you tell us what the hell he was trying to say?

[Goingonit]

I'm not sure I get it, but in the US you do need brick-and-mortar operations in a state to have to pay its income taxes. So if you're a foreign or out-of-state internet- or catalog-only merchant, you're exempt from state income tax.

[KrazyHorse]

EDITed

because I'm wrong, I think

[DuncanK]

Originally posted by Berzerker
Right now, goods made here are taxed at various levels while foreign goods are exempt from many of these taxes.

Can you give me an example?

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia
Sales tax is terribly regressive. So are speeding tickets. Lets progressify speeding tix.

The Finns have professive speeding tickets You can also make VAT tax progressive.

[loinburger]

Yeah, a luxury tax is kind of like a progressive VAT.

[Goingonit]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
You can also make VAT tax progressive.

Not practically. You're going to give a full disclosure when you go to the store?

But what Loinburger said was right.

[KrazyHorse]

But it's complicated to implement, I would think.

More like a nightmare...

[Berzerker]

Btw, this thread is just more proof that liberals hate treating people equally under the law.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Goingonit


Not practically. You're going to give a full disclosure when you go to the store?

See loinie's post.

Charge 50% tax on furs and 0% tax on groceries

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Goingonit
I'm not sure I get it, but in the US you do need brick-and-mortar operations in a state to have to pay its income taxes. So if you're a foreign or out-of-state internet- or catalog-only merchant, you're exempt from state income tax.

I think that's true. Only if you buy from somebody in your state that you need to pay the state sales tax (not income tax I don't think).

But the state sales tax is to fund to the state's government, but the national tax is to fund the federal government, they are completely different beasts.

[Goingonit]

Do they have transfer payments in the US?

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Berzerker
Btw, this thread is just more proof that liberals hate treating people equally under the law.

No, it's just more proof that classical libertarians try to disguise their marked preference for the upper echelons of society with talk of fairness.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Goingonit
Not practically. You're going to give a full disclosure when you go to the store?

But what Loinburger said was right.

Not on how much you have, but how much you spend. So you get taxed a lot more on a 20 meter yacht than a compact car.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Goingonit
Do they have transfer payments in the US?

Yes. People are pissed off right now that Dubya didn't share the wealth with the states in his latest proposals.