[sheikdetailfeather]

..."and they've crafted federal legislation that may be introduced in Congress as early as next week."

[shineon]

Bye bye Miss American tax free pie.

[napscoordinator]

They seem to bring this up every session and it fails everytime.

[EGPWS]

95% of us will see a tax cut so not to worry....

[savedbygrace]

This Congress and this administration seem hellbent on destroying the Republic.

[LADY J]

This is going to put a lot of online sellers out of business.

Shoppers are NOT going to pay taxes PLUS SHIPPING & HANDLING charges!!

[allmost]

Online monitoring and recording is the only conceivable way to enforce this.

[DoughtyOne]

In a word, “NO!”

If they think they’ve seen a big tax protest to this point, wait until they implement this.

[eclecticEel]

It sure is good that only people making over $250,000 a year shop online.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

But now, according to CNet News, an alliance of "brick-and-mortar" retailers and state governments has teamed up to end that — and they've crafted federal legislation that may be introduced in Congress . . . .

That and a few hundred bags of money will get a copy of the tobacco tax increases.

I'd say that brick-and-mortar businesses are threatened at least as much as cigarette manufacturers were threatened by roll-your-own smokers.

No problem. A few hundred bags of money carried to Congress and look! .. a 2000+ percent tax increase on loose tobacco*. End of threat to the Big Cigarette.

The states want the sales taxes, the brick-and-mortar want the business.. look for really big federal restrictions/taxes on Internet sales.

*Yes the original tax on loose tobacco was low, something about a dollar a pound I believe. It was raised to $24 a pound if I am not mistaken.

[Paladin2]

That’ll help stimulate the economy, fer sure.

[listenhillary]

Driving online stores to set up shop in foreign countries who will not act as unpaid tax collectors for Uncle Sam.

[dancusa]

This will also cause the loss of 10’s of thousands of jobs for the shippers. FedEx, UPS and USPS.

[Cicero]

Well, there is a basic paradox here. The Feds don’t collect sales taxes. Only the states do.

So, how can the feds pass a law making people pay taxes to the states?

Silly question, of course. These days, the feds can do anything they want, especially when it comes to taxes. They will invoke the “commerce clause,” no doubt.

But maybe not entirely silly. They’ve tried this before, and failed. The question is whether things have now changed under Messiah Obama and his gang to the point where they succeed.

[gitmo]

Liberty is such a pain to these people.

[Larry381]

I live in New York and already pay sales tax on most Internet purchases (a few sellers have sued NY to avoid it)
Leave it to the douchebags in Albany not to let a chance to tax something get by them. We are now, by far, the most overtaxed state in the union but the voters keep voting these politicians for life in. It’s getting so bad in NYC that even the illegal aliens are having trouble finding off the books jobs.

[mysterio]

In many states, taxes were always owed. I’m surprised they haven’t demanded address lists from every online retailer like they did when they went after online tobacco sales. I wouldn’t be surprised if they did do that eventually.

[dforest]

This will destroy Internet commerce. The politicians are needing to be purged from DC ASAP.

We do not want their cheesy stinking handouts.

We just want them to go away.

[bgill]

Hey, gotta pay off that stimulus debt somehow.

[Vermont Lt]

I have been collecting and paying sales tax on products sold instate for years. Doesn’t amount to much, but the state of MA is pretty insistent that we report and pay.

[sbhitchc]

Full steam ahead President Obama, Nancy Polosi, Harry Reed. We will rebuild it when you are through.