Standing Up To California's Tax and Loot Crowd

Three cheers for Amazon for fighting back against efforts to force the internet company to collect and pay into California's coffers taxes on the company's sales to residents of the state.


Several problems with the tax and loot campaign are ignored by its supporting members of the political ruling class and their academic and media cohorts who are on a never ending quest for ever more tax dollars

The statist looters don't want to address the fact that the out-of-state businesses they are targeting use no California facilities or services. They neither need nor receive anything from the state so there is no justification for compelling them to do anything for, or pay anything to the state.

Second -- although this is an ideological rather than a legal difficulty -- out-of-state merchants do not vote or have any voice in California. Even though politicians love to extract money from those who have no recourse against them at the ballot box, the rest of us used to believe something along the lines of taxation without representation being tyranny.

Third, the argument that being able to sell merchandise without collecting sales taxes for the state gives  out-of-state catalog and internet enterprises an unfair advantage over local businesses is false as any sales tax savings is roughly offset by the shipping costs that the distant businesses have to collect or bear.

Fight back and keep doing so. We've got to stop feeding the big government monster ! ! ! !