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Originally Posted by Edward M. Grant
You presumably missed the part where Amazon is now planning to open shipping centres all over America so they can provide next-day delivery?
If they do that, many of the 'local retailers' who whined about Amazon not having to collect tax will be looking for another line of work.
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Very possibly. But it has been the "Hometown local retailer foundation" (or whatever it was called) that has been most vehemently pushing for Amazon to collect sales taxes.)
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Originally Posted by ATimson
It's not like the home in the better neighborhood has a higher cost for the state/locality to provide services. Given that, why is it fair to tax it higher?
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For the same reason we tax people with higher incomes more than people with lower incomes, and that there's more sales tax collected on a $100,000 car than on a $15,000 car: they are better able to afford it.