{"id":9,"date":"2007-03-05T19:36:53","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T03:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weeklyrob.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9"},"modified":"2007-03-05T19:36:53","modified_gmt":"2007-03-06T03:36:53","slug":"the-law-plus-bonus-trivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"The Law. Plus Bonus Trivia!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;re shopping for a couch, especially online, you may notice that certain sellers outside your state will sell you the couch without charging sales tax.<\/p>\n<p>You may think to yourself that this is a pretty good deal (especially if the shipping is free).<\/p>\n<p>But note that the law in your state probably says that you still owe tax, even though the seller doesn&#8217;t collect it. (It&#8217;s then called a &#8220;Use&#8221; tax, not a &#8220;Sales Tax,&#8221; but it&#8217;s a tax all the same.)<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to Wired magazine for pointing that out. And thanks, as always, to <a href=\"http:\/\/w3.lexis-nexis.com\/hottopics\/gacode\/default.asp\">lexis-nexis<\/a> for letting me look it up myself (and find that, in my state &#8211; Georgia &#8211; I owe 4% on any item I didn&#8217;t pay sales tax for).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bonus Trivia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Joseph Heller originally was going to call his book &#8220;Catch 18.&#8221; In fact, he had called it that in certain printings. But that same year, Leon Uris came out with &#8220;Mila 18,&#8221; so Heller changed his to Catch 22.<\/p>\n<p>For the trivia information, I thank and cite &#8220;The Yale Book of Quotations,&#8221; which I just got as a birthday present from my mom. Hi mom!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;re shopping for a couch, especially online, you may notice that certain sellers outside your state will sell you the couch without charging sales tax. You may think to yourself that this is a pretty good deal (especially if the shipping is free). But note that the law in your state probably says that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-languagelit","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}