July 2012
What is your take on obama selling NASA to the Russians?
Ha!, If you read that from the Weekly World News, they are like the supermarket tabloid National Enquirer, of the internet. They are the ones who have photos of Yams in the shape of Hitler’s face, or in the back of the magazine, where the ad’s will say TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM SCAMS SEND $20 DOLLARS. Honey we should send $40 dollars then we will be doubly protected.
Amazon Sales Tax — What it Means for You →
mashable.com
Amazon is backing a bill that would allow states to collect or remit sales tax on items purchased from a small number of large, out-of-state online retailers including Amazon and Overstock.
The Marketplace Fairness Act, as it’s called, is backed by Senators Mike Enzi, Lamar Alexander, and Dick Durbin. Amazon is a proponent of the bill, although the company initially opposed the legislation. The constitution allows congress to regulate interstate commerce. This bill would put power into the hands of the states to impose a tax on online purchases or chose not to. Online sellers with less than $500,000 in remote sales will be exempt from collecting these taxes.
Retailers including eBay and Overstock continue to oppose the legislation.
Brian Bieron, senior director of federal government relations at eBay Inc., made the following statement in response to the House Judiciary Committee hearing the Marketplace Equity Act of 2011 — a very similar piece of legislation:
“Small business retailers using the Internet are entrepreneurs who are creating jobs, serving consumers and creating competition for established retail giants. They should be protected from any new Internet Sales Tax regime so that they continue to advance and grow, and regrettably the Speier-Womack Internet Sales Tax legislation falls far short of an acceptable small business retailer exemption.”
The next hearing will be August 1.
“Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.”
—Herbert Spencer 1851
“Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.”
—Herbert Hoover
Wait, and wasn’t anarchei hocking ‘informative’ videos or some shit for a while?
anarchei is the tumblr politics version of the dude you see by the entarnce to the expressway selling shitty mass produced paintings and novelty beach towels.
THINKSQUAD: Anarchyagogo, Anarchei, Anarchist Review, Rykemasters, Disobey, Liberation Frequency, were all the first sites I went to on Tumblr
“Good motives may always be assumed, as bad motives may always be imputed. Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of power; but they cannot justify it, even if we were sure that they existed. It is hardly too strong to say, that the Constitution was made, to guard people against the dangers of good intentions, real or pretended. …Human beings, we may be assured, will generally exercise power when they can get it; and they will exercise it most undoubtedly, in popular governments, under pretences of public safety or high public interest. …There are men, in all ages, who mean to exercise power usefully; but they mean to exercise it. They mean to govern well; but they mean to govern. They promise to be kind masters; but they mean to be masters.”
—Daniel Webster
“Anarchy is not chaos, but order without control.”
—David Layson (via thinksquad)
