You get charged sales tax in your state, and I get charged sales tax in your state.
Then you go to another state and you get charge the sales tax in that state and the resident gets charged the sales tax in that state.
If I work in your state and make money there and I go back home to spend it in my state, that’s simply my own choice to do so. If you come to my state and make money there and then take it back home and spend it in your own state, that’s your choice to do so.
I don’t see any big deal with all that I’ve mentioned above....
Neither do I, however if I can purchase a product on the internet from your state and you from my state why should either of us pay sales tax (unless there is a storefront in my state or your state which would mean there is an agreement in place between the business and the state to pay sales taxes).
As far as taking my taxdollars for contractual work outside my state. The state is taking revenue from the people of the state and handing it over to another state (via workers) while at the same time they are complaining they are losing revenue.
I guess we will have to agree to disagree.