Should online retailers be responsible for collecting sales tax like brick-and-mortar stores? Is it “taxation without representation” or something that’s overdue in our ecommerce world? Should Amazon.com, based in Washington, have to collect sales tax on sales to California customers, even though they have no offices, warehouses, or employees there?
Taxes are basically the price we [...]
Evaluating the potential outcomes of passing the “Amazon tax” to force out-of-state retailers to collect California sales tax, the legislature will be forced to make a business design – something government entities are notoriously bad at. They need to look at revenues and expenses, and the impact on California citizens. We’ll save the debate about [...]
This week I was interviewed and photographed by the San Francisco Chronicle for an article on California’s proposed “Amazon tax.” Obviously I don’t get a lot of press so I thought it was pretty cool. Hopefully Gov. Schwarzenegger will veto this bill again if it passes. The full article is available here.
The photographer, realizing this [...]
It’s a holiday everyone can enjoy!
And you can get a free short stack at IHOP. Donations encouraged to support local children’s hospitals.
Has America been “hypnotized” and “brainwashed” by Barack Obama? That’s what some crazies think.
NLP stands for neurolinguistic programming and attempts to influence opinions and actions through thoughts, language, and behavior. The principal “weapons” of NLP are repetitive words and phrases, deliberate pacing, suggestive/agreeable language, and emotional speech.
In other words, what makes for a good NLP [...]
According to wikipedia, Pixar modeled Frozone (from The Incredibles) after Olympic speedskater Shani Davis. So you don’t have to feel bad about commenting on their striking resemblance.
Congratulations to Shani Davis and all the Olympic athletes.
What the Dog Saw (and other adventures) is the latest from Malcolm Gladwell, the best-selling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers. The book is not one cohesive story or thesis, but rather a series of 19 Gladwell essays that were previously published in The New Yorker magazine. So if you’ve been a devout [...]
When you buy a new Volvo, you have the option of taking delivery at the Volvo factory in Gothenburg, Sweden. There’s no extra cost, and Volvo will even give you 2 round-trip plane tickets to make the journey. Then, they’ll give you a free night’s hotel stay, let you drive your new car all over [...]
I’ve been spoiled by Bryn’s excellent cooking for almost three years now. Before that, I was more interested in the most efficient ways to get the necessary calories into my body.
One of the best (read: worst) products I found was Totino’s Party Pizza. These little frozen pizzas would go on sale for $1 , and [...]
During Friday’s Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony, they would show each country’s population and then the number of athletes from that country. It was interesting to see which countries are the best at producing Winter Olympians.
Among the most efficient was Liechtenstein, with 7 athletes from a population of 35,000. (1 in 5000).
For the sake of comparison:
Canada [...]
