State governments across the country are laying off teachers, closing public libraries and parks, and reducing health care services, but there is one place they could get $23 billion a year if they could only agree how to do it: Internet retailers such as Amazon.com.
That's enough to pay for the salaries of more than 46,000 teachers, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. In California, the amount of uncollected taxes from Amazon sales alone is roughly the same amount cut from child welfare services in the current state budget.
But collecting those taxes from major online retailers is difficult.
4 comments:
tax internet business and most likely they will just relocate
They are not collecting taxes from Amazon, they are collecting them from US. The government can't control spending and they are on the backs of the little people and will drain us dry.
Here we go again suck the taxpayer dry for the chidren. The answer is not money when it comes to the problems of the government school system it is the lack of parental involvement and the NEA. Just look at schools like Holly Grove for $3500.00 per year ther graduates are better prepared than the Baltimore City school students which cost the taxpayer $15,000.00 and up per year.
its just a way to tax the people more. they are not cutting teachers in wico. they are not even cutting admins.
they looking to cut assistants and nurses. what a joke this taxation mess is.
Post a Comment