[quote]VTBalla34 wrote:
What a stupid fucking statement. As if the “typical government employee” is somehow exempted from this tax by his very status of employment lol.
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I said nothing regarding a “typical government employee is somehow exempted.” My reference was to how so many typical government employees view non-government employees as simply prey from whom to steal money. In short, it’s a parasitical relationship.
That said, yes, a government employee is not a “seller” of goods, so sales tax does not burden that employee. (Note the legal meaning of “burden” discussed above.)
[quote]Jewbacca wrote:
Was this from an actual court opinion? Or is this just the all-knowing Jewbacca offering his own Holiday Inn Express opinion on what he thinks it might kinda be?
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Actually a series of court opinions. One of which was cited below, albeit with the typical wikipedia spin. Put in context, I doubt any statutory scheme could pass muster.
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Because according to the state of Virginia . . . . . weird how blatantly “unconstitutional” (your words, not mine) the Virginia Sales Tax code is. The nerve of these people!!! Wow I bet I would even find one or two other states who are blatantly disregarding The Articles of Jewbacca if I bothered to look!!! How weird? [/quote]
You clearly don’t understand the concept of federal supremecy.
I don’t doubt Virginia and a host of other states attempt to overreach and leave unconstitutional laws on their books. States leaving unconstitutional laws on the books is pretty standard and why Westlaw and Lexis (and Shepards Citations before that, to show my age – I used to check them by hand in a seris of books and pocket parts) exist — to check and see if a given case or law on the books has been overturned.
To take the concept of such unconstitutional statutes out of this context, there are many states with laws on the books that state “abortion is illegal and murder” (or shades of the foregoing). These laws are unconstitutional per Roe v. Wade, but still sit on the books.
Similarly, there are laws against homosexual sodomy and a host of other things that sit on state books, but which cannot be enforced.
There are lots of reasons states leave such laws on the books, from simple stubborness of the state leglisature, to political posturing, to laziness, or, more commonly, because a statute is only partially invalid and re-writing it causes a series of other problems (e.g., ex post facto laws).
The Virginia sales tax law (which I didn’t read – I am assuming it is sales tax and not income or franchise tax, both of which are different analysis), to the extent used to collect sales tax from an out-of-state seller with no physical building in Virginia is unconstitutional per the cases cited in this thread.
Regarding your beef with the “logic” of the cases, take it up with the circuit courts and the Supreme Court, as well as the Founders of the USA. The reasoning is not mine.
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As a further aside, you made a number of personal attacks. It is clear you hate being shown up.
I’d don’t mean this ugly, but I can tell you are a smart guy, but pretty much a failure at life. And no, I don’t mean “a complete loser,” but you clearly failed to live up to yout potential.
I’ve seen shades of you a hundred times. Sometimes even associates who we hire that chaff under the hard work and drugery of being a baby lawyer.
Indeed, I have a niece who is a MENSA member, like you.
She had a 1500 SAT, but B- student is school. She didn’t get into an Ivy League school – went to Boston College. She was a B- student in college, dropped out, and now a night manager at some hotel.
Dates a fat guy who drifts between assistant rabbi jobs who is also a MENSA member.
Like you, she’s a rabid liberal Democrat.
Like her, instead of looking to yourself and actually working hard, you are hostile to those that succeed, thinking yourself superior to them — and yet they do better at you in life, probably in all respects.
The reason you hate conservatism is it requires, above-all, personal responsibility. To someone like you, who SHOULD have been great, personal responsibility is the last thing you want, because you would have to recognize the reason you are a nobody – despite the great potential of your intellect – are your bad life choices.
Similarly, you like liberalism, because it tears down the successful who work hard. You envy and hate the successful. (Actually, the correct word is “chamad,” and makes its apperance in the 10th commandment.) Because of your “chamad” you enjoy them being victims of theft, and you undoubtedly justify it to yourself.
In short, you are a perfect foot soldier for the Democrats.
Smart, but resentful. Full of hate and envy — of chamad. Fearful of having to be answerable for your actions, and thus a willingly dependent slave of your masters.
It’s a sad way to go through life, and I feel very bad for you.