You are missing a big part of the point here. Internet retailers based in the US were often collecting no sales tax whatsoever. Not for the state the customer was in, not for the state their business was in, not for the state their warehouse was in, etc. If the retailers even started charging only the required sales tax for the state they operate in, that would make a big difference and the states could sort out the rest.

But of course, you seek an opportunity to oppress small businesses and - more importantly - their employees. You have openly endorsed a higher unemployment rate as a goal worth pursuing. You oppose the collection of this tax because the wealthiest people are able to most easily avoid its collection. You want to bring more power and wealth for those who already have more than 90% of the country's power and wealth, and you want to bring fascism for the people.

As usual, you missed completely what is going on here. The story mentions a politician who proposed legislation. In a democracy, laws come about by discussion and legislation. Of course, we all know that you openly hate democracy. You want swift concentration of power to bring about prompt laws. You want more power for those who already hold most of the power, and you want fascism for the people.

I, for one, am glad I do not live in the state that you want to see created.

By which, of course, you mean the salaries of all the employees other than yourself. You would cut (most || all) of the government employees, and in the process your salary would (grow a lot || grow ridiculously) while you would force people to do (all || more than all) of the work that the fired people were doing for free. Meanwhile you would be doing (less work than before || no work at all) while celebrating your achievements.

And of course, in the process your power would have increased (incalculably || beyond your wildest dreams || beyond everyone else's nightmares) while you strip away all the rights of everyone else that allows society to exist and people to live. But this is just how your strategy works, you bring power for the wealthy and fascism for the people.

That strategy might work if Hawaii wanted to secede, but anywhere else and the radiation fallout would end up having detrimental effects on the rest of the country.

How exactly does a government oppress its own people with a nuclear bomb? If the government nuked its own people it wouldn't have people left to collect taxes from - and the land would be worthless as well.

Just because you want wealthy people to be able to purchase nuclear weapons on the open market so they can threaten overseas nations that they don't like, doesn't mean that lies about government oppression will be a useful tactic to push your church's agenda. As usual, you are looking to create more power for the wealthy, and more fascism for the people.

Doubly so, since he is a fascist extremist and a devout cult member.

First of all, US currency is not issued by the government. Pull out a dollar bill and look at it, read the markings. Dollars come from the Federal Reserve, which is not actually part of the government but rather a consortium of banks. If you knew half as much about economics, finance, money, math, or government as you claim, you would know this. Why on earth you were moderated up for that kind of outright lie is anyone's guess.

It likely just shows that either you still have active fellow cult members here, or you have a sock puppet with moderator points. Either way it's the same game from you, you seek to increase power for the wealthy and deliver fascism for the people.

Why do you care? You said there should be no public property, and in your fantasy fascist world there would be no private property, either. Property would only be corporate or soon-to-be-corporate. Private property would be a thing of the past in your fantasy world. Your world would do that to further produce wealth and excess for the wealthy, and fascism for the people.

I will retire this account when fascism is no longer broadly endorsed by slashdot readers. An especially loud fascist here was recently promoted to the point where he can - using his regular account at at least one of his sock puppets - write as often as he wishes. That came about because his comments were endorsed by other facsists here. When the fascists are properly recognized as such, and not taken in as deliverypeople of a brilliant idea, I will stop including my line as often.

When fascism comes up this often in discussion - particularly when fascists work their political ideology into discussions that were otherwise not political - it is not hard. We have a fair number of people here on slashdot who want to empower the rich, and bring fascism for the people.

We have hardly any left in this country as it is. Every year we strip away further at what used to be worker's rights. Every year we get closer to them having none left at all.

As we continue to empower the wealthiest at the expense of the least fortunate, we continue to step closer to delivering fascism for the people.

As usual, you are selling fascism under the guise of "libertarianism", and as usual you are getting moderated up by your fellow cult members. No surprise there, but still worth pointing out how many places you lied or got it wrong:

Wow, you were even disingenuous in your first line. You sir, are actively involved in class warfare, even though you try to bury it in nonsense. You are actively engaged in warfare on behalf of the wealthiest, as your church has led you to believe that those people will - even though you give them no incentive to - come to your aid after you complete rigging the world for them.

Actually, very few people receive money "created out of thin air by the Fed", as much as you claim otherwise. Money that is collected in taxes is still money, it is not "created out of thin air". Expenditures that are reduced by tax clauses still are savings, not "money created out of thin air". In other words, your premise is beyond flawed, it is utter bullshit.

What you are conveniently overlooking here is that if a country focuses on getting its people only into manufacturing - and not engineering - you actually end up stifling innovation. You are proposing a situation where fewer people will go into engineering or get any kind of education beyond 6th grade. While such a scenario helps the bottom line of the wealthiest - who don't need to give a flying fuck about how the rest of the country gets by economically - it is devastating towards the actual growth and progress of the nation.

Unsurprisingly you don't seem to understand how design, prototyping, and production work.

If that were true then there would be no production of anything in this country. There are millions of employed people in this country who will tell you that you are, as usual, dead fucking wrong.

So you want wealth to just be passed down through rich families. Not a surprise coming from a fascist like you with no understanding of math, science, or economics. Suppressing the middle class has been a clear objective of yours for some time.

No, no, and no. You don't have a clue what you are talking about. I suggest maybe you might want to try reading sometime. Read anything that was not written by your church, really. You might learn something.

Socialism and fascism are incompatible, there is no such thing as a genuine socialist-fascist state - they have to compromise significantly on one or the other. You of course favor the latter over the former by many orders of magnitude for your dream state of the future.

You are either an epic liar or you have no clue whatsoever of what you are writing about. Your writing demonstrates an epic lack of knowledge of on science, math, and economics. You appear to be repeating infinitely the words of your religion without thinking about what they actually mean. Your dream state gives all the power to the wealthiest people and suppresses everyone else. Your dream state removes opportunities and rights from the numeric majority of the country. Your dream state provides wealth for those who have wealth and fascism for the people.

That is a terrible excuse for a metric, there. Standard Oil wasn't competing, they were just seeing reducing costs because they were tapping in to new oil fields all the time. Perhaps you haven't noticed, but this planet we live on has a limited total volume, and eventually a point was reached where the amount of oil that was being tapped easily was starting to decrease while the more difficult-to-reach oil was the source of new reserves. Standard Oil just happened to be broken up very near that tipping point.

Besides, you free market fascists are supposed to be telling us that competition is good for the market, right? Half of the messages you have posted lately have been about how government is "choosing winners" and needs to let all the players run unobstructed. Here the government was lowering barriers to entry for new companies and you are attacking it. Of course this kind of hypocrisy is hardly new for you.

How is that good for anyone? What is the benefit to society when one person is unimaginably rich?

Holy unsubstantiated claim, batman! I can think of a large number of innovations that have come from the petroleum industry since the break-up of Standard Oil.

Depending on what you call "their product", one could say that it has indeed gone down on many occasions. Even more so, you are making an incredibly stupid assumption that the cost of a product with limited supply could somehow be prevented from eventually going up. Anyone who passed Econ 101 knows that as demand goes up - or as supply goes down - the meeting point of the two curves is one of higher price. I'm sorry you cannot grasp even this very simple economic concept.

I am also sorry that you still yearn for the times when giant companies like Standard Oil could hold a complete monopoly on a product and its production. You clearly endorse a company having unlimited power over the market and its employees. You clearly want to deliver more power to fewer people. You clearly want to bring fascism for the people.