“Get ready New Jersey, as of Sunday the state’s increased sales tax is expanding to more items, including downloads and tattoos,” WABC-TV reports. “As part of a sales tax increase, from 6 percent to 7 percent, which was approved in July, the state’s tax will be extended to various items.”
“New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine [Democrat] proposed the increase to help close a projected $4.5 billion budget deficit, but the increase was opposed by many state Democrats in the state legislature. That dispute led to a shutdown of the state’s government, which was later resolved,” WABC-TV reports. “The state’s 7 percent sales tax will be expanded, including… downloaded music and video.”
New Jersey’s tax-happy lawmakers didn’t stop there. Lucky NJ residents will now get to pay expanded taxes on shipping and handling charges, flooring and carpeting installation, storage space, tanning, massages, data processing, limousines, health, shopping and other club membership fees, parking garages and lots, non-clothing cleaning services, landscaping and more.
Full article here.
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‘iPod tax’ proposed for online music downloads – March 10, 2005
President Bush signs Internet tax moratorium into law – December 03, 2004
Keep drinking the Rush Limbaugh Oxy Kool Aid Ray Lane. Slurp, slurp!
http://www.caltax.org/member/digest/jan2003/1.2003.Doerr-NotionExpandingSalesTax.03.htm
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1K1-1116080000042493.html
http://www.sia.com/state_affairs/html/tax_on_services.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2006/01/16/story2.html
It seems to me that everyone except legislators think that service taxes are a bad idea.
‘GOP Reminder’ said: “Democrats = Tax and spend. Liberally.
Make your vote count!”
Just checking:
Didn’t Daddy Bush leave a weak economy and a large deficit for President Clinton? Then President Clinton left a huge budget surplus for Son of a Bush? Now Son of a Bush has squandered the surplus he inherited and the US is back to a huge budget deficit? By the way, with China holding a big chunk of the US IOU?
Just checking.
You stupid fskers really should do more “independent” reading before you go online anonymously and talk shit.
And no I’m not an “liberal” or a “conservative”. I just don’t have any tolerance for lies and bullshit especially when people’s lives are at stake.
The MacDaddy-Oh!: http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=50513
Hey, at least this NJ Governor isn’t out cruising porno stores and bath houses for boys to “love”.
One of the main reason I buy music on iTunes is that I don’t have to pay tax on the album.
Here is the bottom line. Raising taxes does not help, especially with sales taxes. Here is what happens. Large ticket items lose sales because people don’t want to pay the taxes. Boat Makers, Auto Makers, etc. all lose, which can result in loss of jobs. Furthermore, retailers near the borders lose out, because people will enter the next state with lower taxes (Perfect example is in Rhode Island where taxes are 7%, and Massachusetts is 5% – Which Apple store would you go to?).
Furthermore, lowered taxes can equal MORE tax revenue. John Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush lowered taxes, and shortly thereafter, MORE money came pouring into the government. Why? First, because lower taxes make it less desirous to cheat on your taxes. Lower taxes puts more money into the hands of consumers who buy more products, and grow the economy.
On a final note. This country was the economic and political world power long before we were taxed and spent to death. These high taxes are not necessary. There is more wasteful spending than you could possibly imagine. We need to start there!
I know there are a lot of Jersey residents that actually work in another state (NYC for North Jersey), (Philly for South Jersey). So I expect a lot of folks to start buying at work and just bringing the purchases home via thumb drive or laptop.
Magic Word: increase, as in this tax will not increase New Jersey’s revenue.
A fun little quiz: Match the people (Rush Limbaugh, Winston Churchill, Ronald Reagan, John F. Kennedy) to the quotes below:
1. “Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July, but the Democrats believe every day is April 15.”
2. “If you’re not a liberal at 20, you have no heart, and if you’re not a conservative at 40, you have no head.”
3. “An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenues to balance our budget just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits… In short, it is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now.”
4. “No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.”
MacMania:
To finance an unnecessary war in Iraq that has made America less safe against terrorism, no less.
I love it when NeoCons and their fanboys spout the Republican party line and continue to attack Dems and liberals, yet are too ignorant to look at what their failed, repeatedly proven wrong policies and ideology has done to make America weaker, rather than stronger.
It makes you really wonder who’s living behind the Reality Distortion Field here…
NeoCons- Borrow & spend. Borrow & spend. Borrow & spend. Borrow & spend.
I don’t like Corzine, but at least he has the cojones to raise taxes rather than just borrow the money and leave the problem for kids who can’t vote on it. Your kids and grandkids will be picking up most of the tab for the George Dubya Bush fiasco.
Under Dubya and the ethically challenged NeoCon Congress, our National debt has doubled. The largest single holders of our new debt under our ‘War President’ are countries like China, Saudi Arabia, U.A.E., etc. I’ll bet Neil Cavuto doesn’t tell you that on Faux Newz Channel.
By the way, love those NeoCon values.
Duke Cunningham- now in jail for corruption.
Delay- headed to jail for corruption.
Foley- out of the closet as a possible pedophile.
Ralph Reed- former Christian Coalition head tied up with Abramoff pimping gambling.
Scooter Libby, etc.
The hits just keep on coming…
Tonight Bill Moyers has a special about what the NeoCons have been up to while you haven’t been paying attention.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/capitol/index.html
eep drinking the Rush Limbaugh Oxy Kool Aid Ray Lane. Slurp, slurp!
–I guess when you have no original ideas, you just toss out insults.
Didn’t Daddy Bush leave a weak economy and a large deficit for President Clinton?
— Yup, number one reason he wasn’t re-elected.
Then President Clinton left a huge budget surplus for Son of a Bush?
–Not really. At the time he left office there were projected surpluses. Those surpluses were predicated on certain things happening certain ways over a period of years, and were a ‘best scenario’ prediction. Furthermore, when Bush entered office, the economy was on a downswing (I am not blaming the Clintons for this, they did not cause this) due to corporate corruption scandals, etc. Then of course, 9-11 had the potential to devastate the economy.
–Fortunately, through the use of lowered taxes, the economy has grown despite this. We now have lower unemployment than ever, the Dow is higher than ever, and tax money coming in is higher than ever (another tax cut please).
Now Son of a Bush has squandered the surplus he inherited and the US is back to a huge budget deficit?
–Defecits are not necessarily a bad thing in general. First because our economy can drow us out of the debt, and second because it puts money into circulation through US banks, and through manufacturers.
By the way, with China holding a big chunk of the US IOU?
–I do agree that that is NOT good.
Yomomma: “Hey, at least this NJ Governor isn’t out cruising porno stores and bath houses for boys to “love”.”
You’re right, that was the last NJ Governor who was out cruising truck stops for some action.
RayLane:
“(and cover up pedophile congressmen)
Funny, seems to me that the Republicans have come out against him, not covered him up. If you are talking about the investigation from a while back, it was about something completely different, and no evidence was found against him.
As for covering it up, I think you are talking about the Democrats that circled the wagons around Clinton during his intern scandal, rape scandal, sexual harrassment scandal.”
What rape scandal? Clinton was NEVER involed in a rape scandal. A little NeoCon revisionist history at work here?
“Or perhaps you are thinking about Mel ‘I won the lotto’ Reynolds, who the democrats covered up for when he was raping young girls. Clinton pardoned him on his last day in office.”
Two words: Iran-Contra.
Oh, and if you want to talk about sexual harassment, let’s not forget about Clarence Thomas / Anita Hill. Or did you convienienty forget about that one?
And what exactly makes this any worse than sending thousands of US troops into a war, some never to return home to their families again, based on a lie and a vendetta?
BTW, when Clinton was impeached by the Republican controlled House of Reps, at LEAST he had the courage to go through the trial that followed. The FIRST PRESIDENT TO BE IMPEACHED, Richard Nixon, a conservative Republican, PUNKED OUT and resigned before his Senate trial, because he knew he would be convicted. You NeoCons / Reps should remember that next time when talking about how Democrats “cut and run”…
Hillbilly Heroin addicted Rush Limbaugh (a.k.a. War Pimp #1). Did OxyContin until he became deaf as a side effect. Dodged the draft with a note from his doctor because he had a cyst on his ass.
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“Their solution is always to tax everyone to death…”
As opposed to Republicans, whose response to everything is to send someone else’s kids to their death. That’s when they’re not importuning them by sending them instant messages or e-mails.
Glad I live in New York.
If you live in Jersey maybe it’s better to just buy CDs online from other states. Just a thought…
To finance an unnecessary war in Iraq that has made America less safe against terrorism, no less.
–You are so right! I think Saddam should be free to continue torturing his own people. He should be allowed to re-open the rape torture rooms, and continue gassing his people. He should be allowed to continue giving money to the families of terrorists that give up there lives in the noble art of killing others! He should also be allowed to take over Kuwait if he wants, ignore UN resolutions, and build biological and nuclear weapons. The world was so much better with this hero in power!
–And you are sooo right about America being less safe. Despite the fact that Al Quida has had most of its top leaders killed, and much of its funding stripped away, they still are much more powerful than we are. I think we should just negotiate with them, maybe give them and Hamas, and Hezbollah Israel, then maybe they will suddenly love us instead of hate us.
I love it when NeoCons and their fanboys spout the Republican party line and continue to attack Dems and liberals, yet are too ignorant to look at what their failed, repeatedly proven wrong policies and ideology has done to make America weaker, rather than stronger.
–Thats right it’s there policies that have turned us into a third world nation. That’s why are economy is so poor right now. Appeasement works every time. I mean look at Clinton, he didn’t try to take Bin Laden when he was handed over to him. Why, because Bill Clinton is a loving man who wanted to show that he was kind to all men. And leaving Mogadishu proved that point further.
“On a final note. This country was the economic and political world power long before we were taxed and spent to death.”
Do some homework. Taxes were much higher during the halcyon decades following WW2 than they are now.
In this era claiming that democrats love taxes and are tax and spenders is the intellectual equivalent for saying the 6 year old girl next door has cooties. It made sense and perhaps had an element of truth when you were 6 but no longer.
Ray Lane:
“eep drinking the Rush Limbaugh Oxy Kool Aid Ray Lane. Slurp, slurp!
–I guess when you have no original ideas, you just toss out insults.”
True. NeoCons do it all the time.
If you guys thought a little more “independently” then debates like this would actually be interesting. Problem is, you guys sound like Karl Rove (who in any other civilized country in the world would be brought on treason charges for his role in the CIA leak last year) wrote your material.
What, you (NeoCons) can dish it out, but you can’t take it?
Your analysis is flawed.
By way of example, no intelligent person would drive from RI to MA to save 2% on an average purchase, the savings is eaten ten fold over in cost of gas and time.
And because your argument is nothing more than a pile of Grand Old Propaganda, I have to ask… just how many suvs and vacation homes would the average lie&kill; neocon need to stop whining like a pre-pubecent Paris Hilton?
Your analysis is flawed.
By way of example, no intelligent person would drive from RI to MA to save 2% on an average purchase, the savings is eaten ten fold over in cost of gas and time.
And because your argument is nothing more than a pile of Grand Old Propaganda, I have to ask… just how many suvs and vacation homes would the average lie&kill; neocon need to stop whining like a pre-pubecent Paris Hilton?
What rape scandal? Clinton was NEVER involed in a rape scandal. A little NeoCon revisionist history at work here?
Check your history. Clinton WAS accused of rape. I am not saying he was guilty, but it certainly was a distraction for our president, wasn’t it?