There is already a mechanism to pay sales tax on internet purchases, and the burden is on the individual to pay it. If the state feels it is so important, let them try to enforce it.
You said — Does thw cashier in Oklahoma have a chart of all the sales tax rates in all the states, and municipalities in the country? Do they make a check to the state comptroller in California for 9.75% when a resident of California buys something? Why would laugh at the burden of collecting taxes for California being placed on an Oklahoma business?
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You’ll note what you originally said here... (LOL...) — It is bullshit coward politics to hide from the people by quietly making business do the dirty work. LOL.
AND, in answer to that, I replied in regards to that “procedure” of the state — Ummm... from what I’ve seen in traveling around in Oklahoma and Texas — *that* — is exactly what they do — and they do it at the cash register that I’m at, when I pay for my goods... LOL..
You might have missed that “procedure” in your state.. :-)
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It seems to me, that you’ve missed the fact that this is *precisely* what the states do — already — in collecting the sales tax in their own states. They *very precisely* allow the retailer to collect it for them. OR, haven’t you noticed that, yet? LOL...
And as far as all the competing and different rates of sales taxes in all the various states, that’s going to be one of the problems that all states involved are hoping to work out *among the states* in order to solve that problem.
Believe me — *each state* wants to collect that sales tax — and they will with the cooperation of the other states. You see, each state knows that it’s going to require the cooperation of the other states to make the whole system of collecting the individual state sales taxes be a “smooth operation” and not a “free-for-all” among the states. That’s why the individual states are “holding off” for the time being, in order to get that system, between them, to work...