Taxes are not so ok when a DUmmie has to pay them

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dixiegrrrrl (46,690 posts)

ALERT: Alabama’s ‘Amazon Tax’ set to go into effect....*^&%$#!

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Beginning November 1, Alabamians will be paying 8 percent extra anytime they make a purchase on Amazon, thanks to the state’s new online sales tax. The tax was signed into law in October of 2015, and forces online companies to collect, report and distribute the money back to Montgomery.

Melissa Warnke, a spokesperson for the Alabama Retail Association, told WSFA that “Amazon, for a long time, has been for paying online sales tax. They have been on the same side of all of the brick-and-mortar businesses that have been fighting for e-fairness.”

Alabama consumers will now be paying more at 52 different online retailers that all have to collect the state’s 8 percent.
http://yellowhammernews.com/politics-2/alabama-amazon-tax/?utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20160605&bt_email=bamabound05@gmail.com&bt_ts=1470940890984

Living in a rural part of Alabama, I use amazon a lot.

I wonder if this effects the independent book sellers who sell via Amazon?

Might be can get those cheap book prices by just going to the seller's stores.

^^^ I am shocked I say, shocked. I thought that part of the liberal mantra was that taxes are good and higher taxes are better since the government undoubtedly knows how residents' funds should be used. I think that dixiegrrrrl needs to be sent to a re-education camp.

PSPS (6,222 posts)
2. And it's high time too.

Those sales taxes are used to fund the infrastructure that online shoppers rely on to receive what they ordered. Without this, brick-and-mortar stores are subsidizing Jeff Bezos.

juxtaposed (1,617 posts)
4. Don't tax amazon nor the buyer. brick & mortar effect the local infrastructure and should be

taxed.

^^^ Taxes are ok unless I have to pay them...

Skittles (108,222 posts)
8. fyi

most of the time, 'effect' is a noun

use AFFECT as a verb

that's how I remember

^^^ Grammar Nazi makes an appearance

dixiegrrrrl (46,690 posts)
12. 8% tax for state, more for counties in the state.

We have some of the highest taxes on food and other items in the country.
Plus the counties add their tax.
Right now I pay 9.5% tax on groceries, clothes, etc. in our county.

Thus internet shopping was a large savings.

And bentley wants to raise gasoline taxes again.

^^^ I thought that DUmmies were thrilled and honored to pay taxes to the all knowing state. Obvious need for re-education as noted above.

Star Member Adrahil (8,082 posts)
18. Indiana doe sthis too.

Hasn't affected my use of Amazon.

Sales taxes are regressive... i'm not crazy about them, but since they form a core element of State revenue, I don't object too much to it.

^^^ Good DUmmie - that is the correct attitude!

Mariana (4,198 posts)
20. You're supposed to be paying a use tax

on your out-of-state purchases that are brought into Alabama.

https://revenue.alabama.gov/salestax/cutax

^^^ Whoops - seems like dixiegrrrrl could be an evil tax cheater. Who should we call?

avebury (7,115 posts)
36. You have to consider what a state's sales tax rate is (including

city and county sales tax when applicable) when understanding why many people choose to shop on line versus brick and mortar stores.

Consider Oklahoma. Even though sales tax revenues continue to fall below projections they want us to vote to increase our sales tax by another1%. Our sales tax rate is already sky high to begin with and, if this state question passes, we will have the highest sales tax rate in the country. As it is, people are spending less money in Oklahoma and they think that will change for the better by increasing the sales tax?

^^^ Hey you DUmmie - the all knowing state is much better qualified to spend your money. Your job is to send more of it to the state. Wear your nametag and keep up with the group.

dixiegrrrrl (46,690 posts)
47. That is the STATE tax rate.....then counties and cties add their own to it.

Anything I buy in my county is 9.5% tax.

So you can see that internet sales can save quite a bit of money, esp. if you get free shipping.

^^^ Lets get back to the point that the state is better qualified to spend your money...

tammywammy (25,302 posts)
46. I pay sales tax to Amazon in Texas

I'm perfectly okay with it. Sales tax in my city is what help funds streets, parks, and other city initiatives. I use Amazon for convenience. The sales tax rate is 8% city & state combined.

^^^ A properly indoctrinated DUmmie...

[USA4ME]

The dixiegrrrrl primitive should think of it as money being collected to pay Nick Saban.

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[FaC]

The dixiegrrrrl primitive should think of it as money being collected to pay Nick Saban.

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Snork 

[I_B_Perky]

Well if this thread does not summarize dummies and liberals in a nutshell.  They want other people to pay for their blessed infrastructure, poor people, etc.

[freedumb2003b]

Texas has been taxing Amazon for about 6 or 7 years.

Funny to see pro-statists not so pro-tax-on-ME!!

Typical hypocrites.

[ChuckJ]

Ah. Damnazon.com. The company that doesn't know what it does or does not have in stock and apparently does not realize that if you pay extra for two day shipping you're apt to get pissed off if you end up getting two week shipping instead.

[Ptarmigan]

Never understood leftists. 

[Carl]

Response to Zing Zing Zingbah (Reply #48)

Wed Aug 17, 2016, 12:30 PM

Star Member dixiegrrrrl (46,709 posts)
51. The key to Ala. tax system is racism.

In most places, schools are funded via property taxes, but in Ala. it comes from the General Fund, a portion called Educational taxes.
What really happens is most desegregated schools are underfunded and lots of white schools are privately funded by parents fees.
So the property tax is kept low.

Even better, we ( and Fla, and Texas and a few more Southern states) have what is called a homestead tax law.
Anyone who is blind, disabled or over 65 pays ZERO property taxes on their primary residence including land around it.
We have our house on one acre of land, and we bought a half acre on the other side of the driveway, which is not connected to our house property directly.
Doesn't matter, tax assessor says none of it is taxable. If it were taxable, we would pay something like 300.00 a year for everything.

The property tax actually works in favor in of everyone, cause in the South, families have owned their land for generations.
Many many cases of people being land rich and cash poor. Anybody can make a passable living if they have land to grow food, and hunting is good, as it is here.


Ala. has income tax, btw.

The South is a great place to retire cause of low taxes on home ownership, no taxes on Soc. Sec. income, so there is mostly just sales taxes.

I guess you just described yourself.

[SVPete]

Wed Aug 17, 2016, 12:30 PM

Star Member dixiegrrrrl (46,709 posts)
51. The key to Ala. tax system is racism.

In most places, schools are funded via property taxes, but in Ala. it comes from the General Fund, a portion called Educational taxes.
What really happens is most desegregated schools are underfunded and lots of white schools are privately funded by parents fees.
So the property tax is kept low.

  In CA schools are funded by a mix of state funds and property taxes, which are assessed and collected locally. While state funds are distributed on a per pupil basis, the property tax funding system has been denounced as racist, because many majority-black and -Hispanic communities also have low property values, therefore lower property taxes, and therefore schools in those neighborhoods receive less funds.

  Hey, dopiegrrrrl! When everything's racist, nothing's racist!