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• [1] Michael from Brooklyn April 01, 2008 - 10:27AM

  I agree that sales tax should be applied to online sales, but what about non-profits that are tax exempt or textbook sales? It is very difficult to tell websites to waive sales taxes if you are eligible to do so.

  
  
• [2] Robert Sinclair from Manhattan April 01, 2008 - 10:31AM

  The issue of NY chaging state sales tax on internet sales is a mute issue. The US constitution says that only the federal government can regulate interstate comerce. The first united states fell apart because the states were able to charge very high taxes on products entering or passing though there state. NY legal can not chage taxes. Unless their is something I don't know. Is there?

  
  
• [3] Phil April 01, 2008 - 10:31AM

  What about ebay type auctions: individuals across the country selling stuff from their attics in the manner of a garage sale. It would be ridiculous for people like this to have to pay sales tax to NY State. Totally unworkable.

  
  
• [4] seth April 01, 2008 - 10:38AM

  About that million dollar earner tax- who voted against that and who are their constituents?

  Their votes were obviously paid for by those million dollar earners who are few and far between.

  The tax codes and laws in this country are tilted toward the super rich and have been for the past 200 years.

  You can go onto a crowded subway, or even stand on any corner in this city and take an informal poll of who makes over 1 million a year and you would probably get not 1 yes. Unless of course you are in the same subway car as the Mayor.

  
  
• [5] CK April 01, 2008 - 10:43AM

  There we go again... New York taking money out of everyone's pockets again. Instead of hammering away at the average man on the street, if corporate tax breaks and loopholes were capped, more money would come in to the coffers than from any little e-Bay purchase or such! It should not be up to out of state sellers to take care of New York's tax. The caller who said NJ tax is retained for NJ sales was right to be exasperated!

  
  
• [6] Ceci from Manhattan April 01, 2008 - 10:51AM

  I agree with the caller who finds it REPELLENT that state lawmakers are concocting a new levy to impose on people. As Mr. Avelia (I think) said earlier in the show, New Yorkers are among the most heavily taxed people in the country. At a time when the well-known and rather extraordinary corruption that pervades New York State government is in the spotlight, it is ludicrous for lawmakers to consider a new tax without also SERIOUSLY considering how to clean up their operation. They are inviting evasion.

  
  
• [7] Kate Lobosco from NJ April 01, 2008 - 11:51AM

  Students should receive a congestion pricing discount!