Online retailers already have to increase their prices to pay for shipping. Shoppers are legally obligated to pay their state’s sales tax on items they purchase online. Perhaps the states should look into recovering their “lost revenue” via the shoppers rather than creating another inefficient bureaucracy. How many jurisdictions have the authority to impose sales taxes? —9,000? What a compliance mess!
Too many “Republicans” are willing to join the tax and spend Democrats. Seems very easy for them to forget any promises they made to get elected.
Increasing the bureaucracy and increasing taxes is the easy way to continue to tax and spend, in my opinion. This is not a zero sum game! Expected revenues will not come rolling in; but another piece of our fragile economy will be damaged or wrecked by the Marketplace Fairness Act.
Well said. Here in WA state we have laws that require us to pay sales tax on items we purchase in another state, whether from a business on the street or from a catalog or an Internet purchase.
It is not right for a state or the feds to require any business owner to be responsible for collecting sales taxes for them for buyers in 49 other states.