Governor Rick Snyder Flips Position Agrees with Clinton to “Force Internet Sales Tax”

Snyder “Favors” State Action on “Internet Taxes!” Governor Rick Snyder said Wednesday the Legislature should tackle the problem of collecting sales tax on Internet purchases instead of waiting for action by Congress as he’s previously advocated.Clinton & Gov. Snyder

Snyder’s shifting view on the issue came one day after The Detroit News first reported his newly appointed state treasurer, Kevin Clinton, came out in favor of the so-called “Main Street Fairness Act” legislation aimed at forcing all Internet retailers to collect the sales tax.
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140226/POLITICS02/302260099

Main Street Fairness Act was introduced by a Democrat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Street_Fairness_Act

Snyder’s Newly Appointed State Treasurer Clinton: Force Internet retailers to collect Michigan’s sales tax
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140225/POLITICS02/302250063/Treasurer-Force-Internet-retailers-collect-Michigan-s-sales-tax

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  10 comments for “Governor Rick Snyder Flips Position Agrees with Clinton to “Force Internet Sales Tax”

  1. RushLake
    March 4, 2014 at 5:54 am

    This is really no shock, I'm surprised he's taken so long. He seems to have a lot of momentum to reelection with all of the media support he is getting. Why wouldn't the arrogant little man feel more comfortable economically processing the taxpayers?

    Yesterday or the day before it was revealed that Maobama funding for his bridge was not forthcoming as per his agreement with the Canadians. I look to him to come up with some type of fee or tax on Michigan serfs to pay for his bridge at some point.

    Michigan taxpayer money to bail out Detroit, more taxes/fees to fix roads, $25 million for his movie industry, taxes on some pensions......the list goes on and on.

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    • Jason
      March 4, 2014 at 6:08 am

      That bridge has YET to cost us. So yeah..

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      • Corinthian Scales
        March 4, 2014 at 7:28 am

        http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mdot/MDOTsec384l_349296_7.pdf

        You may want to reconsider that statement about cost regarding Canada's bridge, which is actually a smokescreen for the rail car tunnels.

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    • KG One
      March 4, 2014 at 10:33 am

      I'd really love to know how to do searches on the old site.

      There is a great video clip which I can't find at the moment that illustrates Snyder's utter contempt for taxpayers keeping their own money.

      All done while explaining with his trademark happy grin, of course.

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      • Corinthian Scales
        March 4, 2014 at 10:39 am

        http://rightmi.com/old/www.rightmichigan.com/index.html

        Go there, then on the top right under Navigation, click on Tags. It ain't perfect by any means, however, it is workable.

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        • KG One
          March 4, 2014 at 10:49 am

          I keep getting 404'd out.

          🙁

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          • Corinthian Scales
            March 4, 2014 at 11:02 am

            WTF!?!? Works here just fine (admittedly somewhat of a pain-in-the-ass sifting through results). As a test, see if you get the same results on links below.

            http://rightmi.com/old/www.rightmichigan.com/story/2014/1/23/113238/519.html

            http://rightmi.com/old/www.rightmichigan.com/tag/One%20Term%20Nerd.html

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            • KG One
              March 4, 2014 at 1:12 pm

              It's the tags with a large number of matches that is throwing things off.

              If it is a tag with a few pages, everything is okay.

              If it's a tag with a large number of matches, the first few pages come through, after that 404.

              🙁

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          • March 4, 2014 at 11:33 am

            The search functionality isn't.

            When I backed up the site, it was more like taking a picture, but not with all the indexing. So for example, when you go go the TAGS, all of those are indexed and saved as HTML pages already.

            the site is static, and a ghost of what it was, if that makes any sense.

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            • KG One
              March 4, 2014 at 1:14 pm

              I'm trying to think of a Harold Ramis joke to put in here, but I'm not having much luck.

              If it is something that I have more time to look for, I'll use the tag trick.

              It's a good start.

              🙂

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