Let's assume for a moment that it is only fair that online retailers pay sales tax too. Put aside the fact that online sales of anything physical requires shipping. And shipping involves many other taxes, such as fuel taxes.

Now the problem that arises is not so much the tax in itself (that will just serve to raise consumer costs approx. 6%, but benefit state coffers). The real problem is in administration of that tax. Not only will it cost small retailers more to sell on the internet, it will be effectively IMPOSSIBLE to do it on one's own. It will simply be too burdensome to manage all the sales brackets and filings. So prices will rise even more cover the new administrative overhead. The inevitable result will be the erosion of small online retail companies and the loss of more high-tech jobs.

What's really sad about this, is that there is a simple solution to at least preventing the admin overhead cost.... have the shipping companies levy the tax. They are already fully equipped to levy charges per zip-code. There are only a handful of companies involved, and they are all large businesses. So the new overhead for them would be negligible.

Haught sounds reasonable? It's just a bunch of sophistry. He hardly makes a single concrete statement about anything.

Coyne is somewhat rude, and I think that isn't necessary. But he's rather unabashed about it and admits upfront he is going to be. Yet overall his argument makes a great deal more sense. However it is very much a rebuttal argument.

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You can get a Viewsonic g tablet for about the same price and it has more ports:

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Show me some hard figures. Doing a 9,000 unit run and claiming success b/c you sold 10,000 doesn't fly.

You don't know? All those android tablets are not keeping their manufactures "afloat" either.

The death of TouchPad boils down to one single factor: Microsoft. If M$ says, "kill it or we'll pull your Windows licenses". What else is their to do? Leo, had an idea: Give up and focus on enterprise. Of course, that got him fired.

All hail the King!

You eat what we let you eat.
smoke the cancer sticks we let you smoke.
see a doctor if have the right job
but we'll give you welfare if you have babies
b/c we need your babies to fight our future wars
against the food we won't let you eat
and the grass we wont let you smoke
and the hope we have dashed against the rocks
day after day after day.

All hail the King!

I get bitchy when I run out of toilet paper. Am I addicted?

Marijuana is no more addictive then anything else you might *want* but no longer have. It just so happens that you tend to want it more than many other things b/ it's a lot better than many other things.

Ask a starving crack addict if they want food or crack. They take the crack. Ask as starving pot head if they want food or pot. They take the food.

That's not all they're out of!

Does anyone else find it ironic that the broken U.S. patent system, and by extension, the broken U.S. government, along with some good-old boy corporate nepotism, is leading us right back to the old Microsoft/Apple duopoly? No more webOS, no more Meego, RIM is on the ropes and Android looks to be next.

Who looses? The customer.

Oh, so you actually think THEY want to go to mars? Or any such thing.

The problem is that the people that tend to rise to power are megalomaniacs and control freaks. All they care about is maintaining power and exerting their ego on others. The have no vision beyond that. And worse still, most of them are just as happy to murder people in unjust wars as to do something good for humanity. And the murder thing pays better $, so there you are.

Petition for the Real Thing

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/%21/petition/develop-system-which-we-people-petitions-can-become-law-directly/PPvS53y2?utm_source=wh.gov&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=shorturl

Bullshit answer. When society chops up world into roads, making it almost impossible to get any where accept by those roads. (and yes, it is illegal to walk along an interstate), then things are way past any argument of privilege. It's bordering on necessity. Saying that driving is a privilege, is paramount to accepting a police state.

There's plenty, if you know where to look and how to interpret the information. Probably the most important thing to understand is that there are always two sides to a coin.