No raise in the last four years. I pay enough in income tax to state and federal. If you find the state of N.C. has owed you money for over a few years, you're S.O.L. getting it back. So, no, shopping online does not trip my Catholic guilt complex whatsoever.

Remember that when you do not get your next raise. piene2

================================ Your next raise depends on the state budget? Bwahaha......... No wonder you're suffering. Good thing Perdue wasn't running again, you'd never get a raise!!!

I am retired and live on a fixed income. If I'm lucky I might get a 2% increase some years. I buy a lot of stuff online 1) to save money, & 2) I cannot find the item in local stores. It costs money to run around trying to find things. Wal-Mart does not carry every thing. Shipping is usually more than the 6.75 % sales tax, so I need the cheaper price of on-line shopping.

So you pick and choose which laws you obey and what you steal. There are a lot of stories in here every day about people just like that.piene2

You just described the NC Legislature and the US Congress.

I'm just following the Republican mantra of not paying taxes. You can't have it both ways, either none of us pay taxes or we all pay taxes. I prefer not to pay....GO REPUBLICANS!!!!!!

Part of the gov't problem is all the estimating that they do. They estimate the amount of sales tax they think they are losing. Most people buy online because the prices are better and it can be delivered directly to their homes. Not to avoid sales tax. And it's not just what you buy online that NC wants to tax you on...it's everything you buy out of state and bring back to use here. So you can pay another state's sales tax, and NC wants to tax you again. Sorry, sounds like NC is stealing from us. Maybe if NC stops taxing us on our state refund checks, since we've already paid tax on that money and that is what we overpaid, maybe I'll start filling out the use tax section.

I live by one simple rule...If I didn't need it today. I certainly can do without it tomorrow.

"Remember that when you do not get your next raise. I hate to disappoint you but I do pay my sales tax and have a copy of every single tax return I have ever filed to prove it. piene2

Sanctimonious drivel... Taxed enough already. ripetomatoes"

So you pick and choose which laws you obey and what you steal. There are a lot of stories in here every day about people just like that. They are always treated very harshly by the posters here.

Remember that when you do not get your next raise. I hate to disappoint you but I do pay my sales tax and have a copy of every single tax return I have ever filed to prove it. piene2

Sanctimonious drivel... Taxed enough already.

"I would think that all of the people advocating higher taxes would line up to pay these additional sales taxes. If they do not, then they are full of hypocrisy. Phenylalanine"

I hate to disappoint you but I do pay my sales tax and have a copy of every single tax return I have ever filed to prove it.

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