Compliance isn’t just a technical burden. It is a threat of legal liability. The bill allows state tax audits by any state against any online vendor.
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About David John Marotta
David John Marotta+ is the Founder and President of Marotta Wealth Management, Inc. He played for the State Department chess team at age 11, graduated from Stanford, taught Computer and Information Science, and still loves math and strategy games. Favorite number: e (2.7182818...)
Government Regulations And Compliance Do Not Make Us Safer
The coercive power of government is more dangerous than the free market. Special interests use it to circumvent both the law and economics.
Read More...Protecting Your Identity: Credit Reports and Credit Freezes
Even if you think you have good credit, periodically check the facts on your credit report anyway. Your credit report will outline your full credit history. And it can help you verify you have not been the victim of identity theft.
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Amazon Sales Tax Collection: Coming To Your State Soon!
Amazon is currently collecting sales tax for purchases shipped to nine states. It will begin collecting sales tax on purchases for Virginia in September 2013.
Read More...Marketplace Fairness Act Adds Automation to Tax Confusion
It is not a new tax. It is simply a tax that nearly everyone currently reading this column is successfully evading without prosecution.
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Financial Advice for Recent College Graduates
Financial advice for college graduates is easy. Graduates street smart enough to take the advice is rare.
Read More...Do Tariffs Protect an Infant Industry?
Do infant industries need tariffs to protect them from their own inefficiency and stupidity?
Read More...How to Find a Financial Advisor, Step by Step (PBS Newshour)
You’re looking for an enduring relationship based on mutual respect and trust, so plan on investing at least as much effort as you’d put into choosing an automobile, especially a used one.
Read More...Gold, Silver and Resource Stocks
The optimum asset allocation to physical gold and silver is 0%. Instead, we recommend you use resource stocks as an inflation hedge.
Read More...Is There A Moral Case for “Buy American”?
Perhaps we would be economically better off with global trade, but do we have an obligation to maintain a higher moral standard?
Read More...CPI Inflation Rate Calculator (Experienced vs. Reported)
Have you ever wondered why the CPI, GDP and employment numbers run counter to your personal and business experiences? The problem lies in biased and often-manipulated government reporting.
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10 Best Places to Retire Abroad
If you like stable governments, low crime rates, socializing, great food, wine, culture and the dependability of developed countries, this list is for you
Read More...Tax Planning
A dollar saved on taxes is worth more than a dollar earned. If you earn another dollar, they will just tax you again.
Read More...Is “Buy American” Un-American?
America will continue to lose jobs where we don’t have a comparative advantage and gain jobs where we do. This change should be welcome.
Read More...Video: Even the Beatles were against highly progressive taxes!
Let me tell you how it will be: There’s one for you, nineteen for me. Should five per cent appear too small, Be thankful I don’t take it all.
Read More...Greenspan, Friedman, Keynes and Lenin All Agree on Inflation
“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.” – Vladimir Lenin.
Read More...Better to Bank with Cyprus Than the United States?
Without any authorizing legislation, the U.S. government has quietly taken more value than Cyprus tried and failed to confiscate.
Read More...Securing Your Retirement or Working During Your Retirement
Securing your retirement financially is too important to leave the process up to chance and guessing.
Read More...Is 95% of the Trade Imbalance Legal Tax Evasion?
As one of Forbes’s 25 largest fictional companies, Stark International could avoid $4 billion in U.S. corporate taxes with this one simple technique.
Read More...Radio: Should We Raise Taxes to Balance the Budget?
David John Marotta was interviewed on radio 1070 WINA’s Schilling Show in March to discuss balancing the national budget, and whether raising taxes is a good method to increase revenue to match spending.
Read More...The Benefits of Free Trade Agreements: The Country Always Wins
Average Americans think about trade imbalances the wrong way. They have it exactly backward.
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The Benefits of Free Trade Defined: The Consumer Always Wins
All I want is a simple cup of coffee near where I work. Is that asking too much of free trade?
Read More...Five Things Advisors Should Tell Clients About Retirement, But Often Don’t
“Retirement today is a lot like an iceberg, where 90 percent of what’s really taking place is below the surface.”
Read More...Subscribe and receive the free presentation: If Not Gold, Then What?
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Big Mac Index Shows Official CPI Underreports Inflation
The lack of an adequate CPI adjustments leave seniors 71 days shy of a year’s worth of lovin’ it. Seniors deserve a break today!
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Should We Raise Taxes to Balance the Budget?
The only two ways to balance the federal budget are to spend less or to collect more. Spending less is the preferred method, but that is just not happening. As a result, politics is pushing many in Congress to try to balance the budget by raising taxes.
Read More...Video: How to Check Up On Your Charity
Maybe it is time you checked up on your favorite charities before making your next gift.
Read More...15 Tax Moves For Right Now. Really?
Do any of these ideas suggest any incentive for the highly productive to continue producing?
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Dwight D. Eisenhower on tax cuts and a balanced budget
“Until the deficit is eliminated from our budget, … there is no end to inflation; there is finally no end to taxation; and the eventual result would, of course, be catastrophe.”
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The Effective Rule of Law Propels Prosperity
Property rights are among the characteristics most correlated with high levels of per capita gross domestic product (GDP).
Read More...Are Property Rights Human Rights?
Does a property owner has the right to use and dispose of his property as he sees fit even if that means he is being irrational, arbitrary, capricious, even unjust?
Read More...David John Marotta speaking in Florida (February 19-21, 2013)
I’d like to invite any of our subscribers in The Sunshine State to attend one of the following events as our guest.
Read More...Is a National Sales Tax Really Fair?
Claims of “fair” or even “regressive” or “progressive” depend very much on what is used as the denominator.
Read More...In Praise of Mid Cap Value
Mid-cap value should be part of any U.S. stock allocation which wants to remain invested in the markets, but is worried about potential corrections.
Read More...Social Security goes fully paperless
You should claim your own Social Security account online and give it a secure password before someone else does.
Read More...AAII 2013
Follow-up information for 2013 AAII presentation “Dynamic Portfolio Construction in the Context of Comprehensive Wealth Management.”
Read More...Let the Income Tax Die at Age 100
The income tax penalizes productivity, discourages hard work, and suppresses investment.
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