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Colorado 'Amazon tax' unconstitutional |
2011-01-28 |
![]() This is only a preliminary injunction, obviously: if this court or a higher one decides that the law is Constitutional after all it'll be reversed. That's why Colorado House Majority Leader Amy Stephens (Republican, of course) is introducing legislation repealing the original law. Colorado Senate Majority Leader John Morse (Democrat) is reflexively opposing the repeal, even though he's sufficiently ignorant of the ruling as to apparently think that either the DMA or its members have revenue caps of $600/year. New Governor Hickenlooper is thus in a bit of a jam; he's facing a House that decidedly flipped last election cycle and a looming court controversy, and a remarkably uneducated set of Senate allies on the other. That this can be fairly categorized as a 'bit of a jam' tells you a lot about the current ideological condition of the various state Democratic parties. And, note: the entire point of this law was and is effectively moot anyway. Amazon promptly pulled out of its Colorado affiliate program a year ago as soon as the law was passed, as per its standard policy. The state of Colorado isn't getting that sales tax money - and it isn't getting the income tax that would normally come from transactions made through the affiliate program, which Amazon.com does report and people do pay state and federal income tax on. Just like the Illinois Amazon tax fiasco from a couple weeks ago. Politicians just don't understand they can't FORCE a international buisness to do anything in their state. The internet buisness can cut all ties and further deprive the state of tax revenue. Higher taxes=less tax revenue. It has been proven time and time again but yet the dumb ass dhimocrats just can't wrap their small liberal brains around that simple fact. |
Posted by:DarthVader |
#2 The Dems, as usual, when given power, try to usurp even more power and money into whatever branch of government they control, then parcel it out to favored groups. |
Posted by: OldSpook 2011-01-28 21:44 |
#1 Here's the relevant precedent established by SCOTUS. The Donk solution is to seek more POWER. The problem is that as the Feds (ie national Donks) are the only one's who can relabel a interstate 'tax' as a 'regulatory' fee, they are the ones most likely to keep the fee rather than pass it on to the states if it was tried even though they'd use it as an excuse to justify their further grasp of the peasants productivity. |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-01-28 15:57 |