Amazon and eBay battle in Washington over Internet sales tax

Keep government's greedy paws out of internet sales!

Why not tax the sales tax and then add a tax on top of the tax which is on another tax.

Why not take every dime that we have and sign IOU's for all of our future earnings and hand it to the government. In the end, that is what they want.

my thinking is the feds and the states need to learn to live within their budgets just like the average person does.brick and morter stores need to figure out how to bring their prices in line with the internet.

It's not just the tax part that sends us shopping online. It's the fact that many websites (Amazon, etc) have products much cheaper than in local stores (chains or otherwise). #$%$ Best Buy, if I can save $5-10 on a movie, and $20 on an electronic device, I'm not going anywhere near you.

"undercut stores like Walmart and Target."

Are you serious? Nobody gets junk made cheaper than walmart. I had a friend that was a Pharmacist, he said, Walmart can sell Meds to public cheaper than he could get them from the Drug manufacturers.

Small Business will be HURT in more ways than listed ... Not only will you have to pay "shipping" but also collect sales tax as well.... This is just a method to get people to buy locally.... Anyway, something that most people don't seem to realize is that the profit made online often ends up locally... when was the last time you ate out online or bought tires, oil changes etc, etc online.... I wager that most online profit gets spent "LOCALLY" not online... The states simply want it ALL..... Call or write your rep in congress asap --- this is absolutely not fair

I'm an international amazon customer and i import almost every month or two. If amazon is going to introduce sales tax, I will reduce my purchases to less than half. PLEASE KEEP SALES TAX OUT OF INTERNET SHOPPING. Why is amazon vouching for this? And yes this will have a direct impact upon small businesses, like the marketplace sellers on amazon.

If Amazon wants to keep me as customer, they'd better shut up and mind their own business.
The minute they start collecting sales tax I'm outta there.

The problem is with the Constitution.Section. 9. Clause 5: No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State. And since the Supreme Court ruled that the States can't tax exports either. And there no way Congress is going to amend the Constitution.

Only way to legally tax internet sales is if the package never cross the state lines. Which already happens. If the seller and buyer lives in the same state, sales tax is charged.

what i have saved in online tax i have usually used that as a shipping fee. maybe they could just standardize it as a 1percent instead of 9

let say tax tax tax everything untill people getting poor. Than we can have another uprising in America. That is what goverment want

This is garbage you don't have to be affiliated with any party no more taxes. There are small American manufacturers who actually provide American jobs that do direct online sales are able to make enough of a profit margin to keep the manufacturing here taxing internet sales will ruin these businesses. This is obviously a bill going against the small businesses and is pro large corporation to sweep the small American business and manufacturers. Any congress member that votes for this should be voted out. The internet is the true free market and these politicians will destroy it anyway they can limiting freedom of choice. Ron Paul for President

the hell with the internet sales tax what about people who are just selling personnell belonging's or cleaning out the garage they already paid the tax on it when they first bought it and now you are asking us to pay the tax again no that is double dipping shame on you our government the biggest double dippers going

Do not tax the Internet my god it's the only last thing we have for survival in this country. Tax Tax Tax Legalize pot already and tax that crap you smoke it anyway.

Back in the 1920's and 1930's those same kinds of arguments were used against chain stores (like A&P, FW WOOLWORTH etc) putting the smaller shops out of business. Way back in 1935, Texas Congressman Wright Patman introduced legislation to tax each chain store. This failed, and consumers continued to benefit from lower costs at chain stores. These tax proposals and the arguments by bricks and mortar firms represent the same flawed thinking that failed 70 years ago.

We know the government needs to make spending cuts and increase tax revenues for the excessive deficit and are using two giants to battle and introduce this new tax into the economy. You know its just a matter of time, give it a few years tied up in the court system, meanwhile just spend your dollars elsewhere, that's what their asking for.

#$%$&&& the fed government, all they do is figure out new ways to screw the american people, tax spend tax spend.....time for all of us not to pay taxes and get our country back.

we all need to fight this somehow. This is a ploy by brick and morter stores to hurt online retailers and everyone will suffer.

They'll get arount to taxing it soon enough, why speed up the process?

What people seem to not understand is that it won't only be Amazon collecting sales tax. ANY on-line store will have to collect it. You can leave Amazon because they charge tax, but wherever you go, THEY will be charging the same tax, too! This issue is not a question of "if", but "when". The "who" will be ANY on-line retailer.