Democrats want taxes high so the government can do more spending.
Republicans want low taxes so the economy can grow and so people can better their lives.
Uh...this doesn’t raise taxes. It makes companies collect sales taxes people already have to pay - the alternative to doing this is for state governments to audit consumers to make sure they are declaring taxes they owe.
The MF act also exempts small business with less than $1m in sales volume.
This is about amazon and other large retailers getting a de facto subsidy because people use those sites to dodge sales tax, which hurts small businesses with brick and mortar footprints.
It is a rise in the effective tax rate, but only because it is enforcing existing sales taxes. Maybe the best option is to abolish sales taxes completely, but the second-best option is to level them fairly, both because it avoids economic distortions and is a fundamental question of the rule of law.