Yea but the trouble is there are a lot of people using eekBay as the only source of income and probably not paying income taxes or their fair share, I mean the mega sellers and middle men resellers. I just got a item off eekBay and it arrived in a large Amazon box <smh> and I already suspected the seller was just a middleman reseller via some of the feedback comments and as I've seen the get rich money making pitchmen on uTube pitching their 'I'll make you rich' schemes. eh.. so I paid $2.00 more to not give/upgrade my Amazon account to the free 30 day Prime for the free shipping only to have to go through the inconvenience of cancelling or getting sucked into their monthly fee.
What get's me now is the charging of sales tax all across the board on eekBay as most of what I buy are used items and the old rule is/was that the sales tax has already been paid on a *new* item and a resale of used items was exempt as the sales tax has already been paid.
But then it gets complicated with large sellers buying salvage lots of new or returned items, but this comes across as double taxation and I guess it is too hard or complicated to figure out. Same goes for alcohol sales, via the Howie Carr show years back up in Massachusetts there was a big fight over a bill introducing sales tax on all alcohol sales, but it's like most of the cost of buying alcohol is state and federal taxes so putting a tax on a tax is double taxation right? I think the bill finally got squashed. I'don'kno I haven't bought any retail alcohol in over a decade but I'll guarantee the last time I did sales tax was on the receipt here in Florida. How about your state? Same goes for our local Flea Market, decades ago use to be people selling used junk but then retail sellers moved in with new items, they even built buildings, some are air conditioned too, then the state came in and seized money(?) issued warnings(?) for everyone to collect and pay up the sales tax.
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