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Why does obama want to impose Internet taxes on us? I thought he wouldn't raise our taxes?

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  • Those are state and local taxes which should be imposed in order to level the playing field. You send your money out of state/country every time you buy something online rather than purchasing in your city from your neighbor. When you spend it at home, it has a 70% chance of coming back to you. Makes perfect sense. Why should internet companies get a break over Mom and Pop?

    It's bad enough that New York state handed $300 million to my huge competitor. The government does everything they can to pick the winners in our economy and lie to you about how they support small business.

    Source(s): Fiscal Conservative
  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

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  • Rick31
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Obama is a chronic liar. The biggest one is that he wants to help the middle class. His policies are designed to destroy the middle class. The problem is too many gullible and ignorant people believe his lies. When he says anything about helping the middle class I know he is lying.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    It was introduced by Sens. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and is backed by Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Home Depot, and other companies that have stores in nearly every state and are currently required to collect sales taxes in both their physical and virtual storefronts.

    Well, well look at that the bill was introduced by 2 R and 1 D. I do not see Obamas name anywhere on here. But please do not let the facts get in your way.

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  • 8 years ago

    The White House is pushing this bill! I saw Jay Carney trying to justify it today. Whoever sponsored the bill should be voted out next election!

  • 8 years ago

    Your premise is false. The President has no say in the imposition of taxes. Since you did not know this, you must be a conservative. Your team lost, and America won.

  • 8 years ago

    Where did you ever get the idea he wouldn't raise your taxes?

  • 8 years ago

    ...because Obama is a liar.

    Obama is a COMMUNIST! Okay? He talks about not taxing the middle class but that is who he hates THE MOST!

    The middle class is the self-reliant class. They are the class that lives without government support. The very poor need government support and the very rich need government support to sustain their monopolies and get subsidies!

  • 8 years ago

    Closing a loophole isn't raising taxes.

    Not a dime goes to the federal government, it's just forcing national companies to stop pretending they don't sell in local states. All this money goes to your local state government.

    Closing this loophole means that the local Mom and Pop store can better compete with the huge warehouse in California. It never saved you a dime anyways, you still paid shipping.

  • 8 years ago

    If he raises taxes he won't break a promise, it was already done. They tax because they can.

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