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Comment This summary is about as useful as my comment (Score 1) 506

Whoever approved this or submitted it should have posting/approving privileges revoked. T\he beginning, middle, and end of the summary make very little sense and provide barely any value. The new learned shortcut is new, but one could have added that this feature will not work for Chrome running Incognito mode (as other bloggers have pointed out).

Comment Collecting Sales Tax (Score 1) 949

One of the issues with forcing a company like Amazon to collect sales tax in all 50 states is that states have weird sales tax laws. For example, in Iowa the sales tax is different depending on the county. So a customer who orders a part in one county has to have X amount of sales tax collected from him. A customer who lives in another county, might have a different. This is hard enough to do in Iowa, but doing it in all 50 states, plus maintaining these tax tables (I am assuming every state is different in regards to taxing shipping costs, etc). I am not against taxes, but the more hurdles we put in front of commerce, the more we will hurt entrepreneurship.

Comment Rent To Own (Score 5, Insightful) 510

Many people are taking an arrogant view of these people and there math skills. Yet those same people leaving comments live in houses they couldn't afford to buy outright. They drive cars, they can't afford either. I think most people use the Rent-To-Own because of cash-flow problems, not stupidity. Remember, it only takes one major emergency to help you lose everything. Don't laugh or look down upon these people.

Comment Re:Minimal Pricing = Legal Monopoly? (Score 1) 272

You are missing the whole idea of minimal pricing. If you sell your apples, and I sell my apples, I have no right to tell you what minimum price to sell your apples at.

However, the minimal pricing that is discussed here is wether or not a manufacturer has the right to say "Don't sell my product below a minimum price". Essentially, it is used by manufacturers to artificially keep the value of the products up.

A lot of automotive parts manufacturers have this. Also, some manufacturers (Royal Purple Synthetic Oils) refuse to sell to Walmart, because they fear by doing so, would lower the selling price and perceived quality of the product.

I feel that if the courts do not allow manufacturers to set the minimimum selling price, then in a certain way their rights are violated. If I produce high quality apples that you want to resell, why shouldn't I be allowed to limit the minimum price you can sell them at?

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