Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Meanwhile - in New York State
I wonder what the court costs will be when someone fights back on this.
Of course, the taxpayer pays for that, too...
Of course, the taxpayer pays for that, too...
This is from a recent Wall Street Journal editorial:
"By signing the state's budget, Mr. Paterson is now attempting to do what Mr. Spitzer only threatened: Force out-of-state retailers such as Amazon.com to collect New York's sales taxes, which approach 9%, including local levies. A 1992 Supreme Court decision called Quill bars exactly this type of money grab. The Supremes ruled that forcing such obligations on companies with no employees or buildings in a state could cripple interstate commerce. Without Quill, small Web merchants would have to answer to 7,500 state and local tax collectors."
