While I agree with a lot of what you said, the fact is that states’ revenues have continued to climb astronomically despite the internet.
No state has gone under due to there being no taxes on the internet. There’s no reason to put an end to the tax free zone.
One period (Probably about five years, but I don’t remember the exact time frame) in California the state taxes went up about 40%. Unfortunately, during that period of time spending went up 44 to 47%. And that’s the whole story here.
States want unlimited spending. And they are going to do everything in their power to achieve that, whether it is necessary or not.
I plan to stand in the way of that any way I can.
Well, personally, I would rather have no sales tax on the Internet. As I said, I got used to, for years, paying no sales tax in person either. It’s not been pleasant for me, the last few years, having to pay sales taxes all over the place... LOL...
So, I’m personally happy with it, if it remains this way on the Internet — and — I *do* (very specifically) use this procedure of buying on the Internet to avoid those sales taxes.
I just don’t think my wishes are going to win out... that’s all...
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Oh, and by the way, you are “taxed” (for those sales taxes) on the Internet — if — you buy something intangible (like music or software or something similar) and you have a card that has an address in a “sales tax state” (the Apple iTunes store is like that, for instance). BUT, the “loophole” here is that even if you “download it” into a “sales tax state” (i.e., that’s where you are actually at), it won’t be charged sales tax for that state, if you have a card that has a “non-sales tax state address” (which I do... LOL...).
So, you can “get out of” sales tax in that particular kind of purchase...
[ ... just a little clue for those who might like to know... :-) ...]