[upchuck]

"It is now time for Congress to provide states...with the authority to require remote retailers to collect sales tax just as Main Street retailers do today," Enzi said. Four years ago, in a CNET News.com editorial, Enzi warned: "Other forms of taxes, such as property or income taxes, may then have to be increased to offset these lost revenues."

Apparently Mr. Enzi is too stupid to realize that cutting government bloat can accomplish the same thing.

So far, 18 states have fully signed on. Those include Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming. Twenty-two other states, including California, Illinois and Texas, have moved in this direction.

So glad to see my state, South Carolina, sees this madness for what it is.

[VeniVidiVici]

And I'm impressed that my state, Florida, which lives or dies by the sales tax, is not on the list.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Apparently Mr. Enzi is too stupid to realize that cutting government bloat can accomplish the same thing.

No representative with a portion of his voting base on a government "salary" is ever going to propose cutting that salary in the interest of a concept as nebulous to those same voters as sound fiscal management.

Mr. Enzi isn't stupid, he's "dancin' with the girl that brung him." ;)

[Master of Orion]

State Governments Have $612 Billion of Your Tax Money That They Are Not Using.



http://www.cafrman.com/Articles/Art-SC-S1.htm

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"So glad to see my state, South Carolina, sees this madness for what it is."

Wisconsin isn't on the bandwagon yet, but that's only because Governor Diamond Jim Doyle (D, WI) hasn't found a way to skim re-election funds off of it. Yet. ;)