

It even won backing from U.S. President Barack Obama












Source: The New York Times

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RE: Is this even a surprise?
By RedemptionAD on 4/23/2013 12:23:09 PM , Rating: 3
The government is the one that made the loopholes that enables those tactics.
The don't want to fix said loopholes or adjust the tax code so it is "firm, but fair".
They pile on huge debt that they will essentially leave future generations to pay for, and one way or the other it will have to be paid.
They did it to themselves.

RE: Is this even a surprise?
By CZroe on 4/24/2013 12:27:51 AM , Rating: 2
You said it: Loopholes.

It still bugs me that online sales are considered any different than mail-order/phone sales. Online sales are just mail-order sales with the benefit of not needing a paper catalog or a cable shopping channel to show their wares and there's no need to call or mail in an order form.

Whether you are for or against taxing Amazon sales and the like, the debate should be over taxing out-of-state sales regardless of how the order was placed or if the Internet was involved. Don't threaten to tax one and not all.

