Liberal Republicans want to raise taxes. – Tea Party Nation
November 7, 2011
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Liberal Republicans want to raise taxes. – Tea Party Nation.
If you wanted to rate Tennessee’s Senator Lamar Alexander, you would have to put him somewhere between horrible and even worse than awful.
What has he done?
Lamar Alexander, or as Tennesseans refer to him as Liberal Lamar, is working on legislation that will force online retailers to collect sales taxes for states.
While Liberal Lamar is a little vague on the details, it is a nightmare.
First, no branch of government, Federal, State or Local needs any more tax dollars. Americans need that money in their pockets.
If you have any indication this is a bad bill, it comes as soon as Liberal Lamar opens his mouth and says he hopes this bill will have bipartisan support.
Internet stores such as Amazon have a significant advantage. They do not have to charge sales tax therefore their prices are usually cheaper. The down side is if you want something from Amazon or LLBean.com or any other online retailer is you have to wait a week or two for the item to be shipped to you. If you want your product now, you have to go to a brick and mortar store.
When this issue is discussed, it is usually in terms of the big online internet retailers. Amazon has threatened to move facilities from states that have tried to make it collect sales taxes and has even terminated affiliate relationships in those states.
By requiring these retailers to collect sales taxes, Senator Liberal Lamar Alexander is creating a nightmare. There are fifty states that have fifty different taxing structures. It is not simply a matter of adding the tax to the purchase and then sending it to the states, these retailers are going to have to add staff to make sure they understand each state’s taxes, program their computers so they are in compliance with the tax laws, accountants to make sure the taxes are sent and then of course, they are going to have to deal with the ever popular tax audits.
Amazon, Office Depot, Staples and Sears, some of the largest online retailers, will have to deal with this. If costs become too great, they will shut down their online retail operations. No matter what, there will be significant cost increases.
They will probably survive.
The real casualty here will be small businesses. The vast majority of online retailers are small businesses. They offer products or occasionally a service. Many of these small businesses only have a few employees. Some only have one.
This legislation will not simply cost these businesses more money. It will put a lot of them out of business. The taxes that will be increased in some cases make the difference for these retailers between staying in business and going out of business. The extra costs of figuring out these taxes may force some of these businesses out of business.
Businesses understand the nature of costs. The first rule of business is you hold your costs down. If you cannot hold your costs down, your competitor will and you will be out of business.
Liberals, like Lamar Alexander, do not understand this. Taxes and the mandates that go along with them, are a cost to business. If costs exceed revenue, a business dies. If costs rise to the point where a businessman cannot draw profit from his business, he will say it is not worth it and shut the business down.
All liberal politicians, like Lamar Alexander and Barack Obama do is add more and more regulations, taxes and costs on businesses. It makes the costs of what we consumers buy greater and it forces businesses out of business.
Lamar Alexander is the personification of the RINO concept. He is a walking disaster who manages to screw up everything he touches. He is proof that the theory we send our best and brightest to Washington is absolutely wrong.
If you think Liberal Lamar Alexander’s bill is a bad idea, and you want to tell him about it, call his office today. I certainly will be.
His Washington Office number is (202) 224-4944 and his state office is 615-736-5129.
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