hypocritexposer
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Tex said:It costs to run governments that work and they shouldn't get away with not paying the part everyone else does.
Tex
It is the consumer that would not be paying the sales tax, in this case, not Amazon.
If the citizens feel that strongly that they should be paying the sales tax, then submit it. Mail it to the government voluntarily and continue to save the amount that Amazon would have to charge, to collect the tax for the government.
What you don't seem to understand Tex, is there are costs associated with collecting sales tax for the government. Employee costs, technology costs etc.
Or tell Amazon you don't want them to create jobs in TN, and to move to China, or Alberta, we won't request they collect a Provincial sales tax.
We have a tax in Canada, the GST, which the businesses are just proxy tax collectors.
We charge our customers the 5% and we pay the 5%, when we make purchases, only to incur an expense of file keeping etc. to get a 5% refund. But I'm sure it costs a little in income tax, seeing as the government also has expenses to charge us the 5%, only to give it back later.
The only one that ends up paying the actual tax, is the retail consumer. But all along the way, the farmers/ranchers, everybody incur additional expenses to be the "tax collector"