Anandakos

The Amazon Tax on e-Commerce: Coming Soon to a State Near You

What mindless drivel.

On May 01 06:52 PM LKofScotland wrote:

> i must agree with this tax debate. clearly the real solution is
> declare as your leader has meaningless the imposition of paper money
> with white colonial slave holders' faces on it. no man can be a
> true man and accept such debasement. washington, jefferson, jackson--even
> frankin it is rumored employed slaves and debased the african man.
> and grant of course ended your american "reconstruction" early and
> delayed our inevitible rise to power that way. these objects must
> be rendered impotent. if your leader is as clever as he appears
> his secret weapon will be the guilt of the white man himself. with
> any luck it will be combined with the secret guilt of the white women
> as well thus making the result a "fait accompli." no one shall deny
> the awesome power and fear of such centralized command and control.

The Amazon Tax on e-Commerce: Coming Soon to a State Near You

This is an excellent opportunity for an "Taxamai", a web presence service that would automatically compute the location specific tax based on the delivery address of a shipment. Companies like Vertex and its competitors already have point of sale computation software that attaches directly to ERM databases. It would be a simple task to webify the engine and host it at Amazon, Google, Yahoo, MS and other major server farms.

The selling website engines executing in the server farm could do an messaging call to the hosted Vertex engine as the transaction is processed. There really isn't that much to this.

It kind of irks me that this is an issue at all. People seem to have a general issue with any government at all; but if there is a level of government that directly affects your life and mine, it is the states and counties that receive sales tax revenue. There are things that simply must be done to preserve the livability of any human society, and people have hamstrung state and local governments with property tax limitations severely. They have to get revenue from some source; what's not to like about having it from the people in another state?

I know the answer to this that most of you will bellow: I don't want to pay it. Well, one thing that's pretty true of web folks: as a group we are narcissistic cheapskates. We think the world revolves around us and that we deserve something for nothing. Feh!