http://www.errorsofenchantment.com/2012/07/30/gov-martinez-right-on-in-opposing-new-internet-taxes/ Why is New Mexico not realizing its potential? Sat, 18 May 2013 14:55:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.errorsofenchantment.com/2012/07/30/gov-martinez-right-on-in-opposing-new-internet-taxes/comment-page-1/#comment-13762 Wayne Sat, 18 Aug 2012 17:45:19 +0000 http://www.errorsofenchantment.com/?p=4536#comment-13762 Appears to me the taxes would be collected in and for the state of origin of purchase, not buyer’s state, or both. So New Mexicans would pay taxes as though they were traveling and buying in a store in New Jersey. Anyone really think the purchaser’s state would derive the income? So likely we would pay a tax to another state, for a long-distance transaction. Not a good idea to require New Mexicans to subsidize stupidity in government in another state; we have enough problems of our own. Looks like a national value-added tax would be a great idea, so we could fund progressive (by definition, collectivist) knuckleheads, nationally!

]]> http://www.errorsofenchantment.com/2012/07/30/gov-martinez-right-on-in-opposing-new-internet-taxes/comment-page-1/#comment-13122 Morning Word, 07-31-12 | New Mexico Telegram Tue, 31 Jul 2012 07:10:02 +0000 http://www.errorsofenchantment.com/?p=4536#comment-13122 [...] Rio Grande Foundation believes that sales from internet companies like Amazon should remain tax-free. Even the conservative Albuquerque Journal opinion page has noted that this hurts small businesses, [...]

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