See my previous posts for the difficulty of enforcement. I'm not sure how competent VA is at my flea market. I have bought many items that would be hard to track. One example is CD's and tapes, some of which are probably bootleg. I pick out a small pile, negotiate a price, the vendors puts them in a bag and puts my cash in his till. I don't know how many units he sells or buys wholesale. I don't know if he steals from the till or counts it accurately. How is the state going to know this?
My concern is not that they couldn't figure out a way to enforce this but that in the process of enforcement they would eliminate all "illegitimate" vendors and possibly eliminate my ability to buy anonymously.
My concern is not that they couldn't figure out a way to enforce this but that in the process of enforcement they would eliminate all "illegitimate" vendors and possibly eliminate my ability to buy anonymously.
"Illegitimate" for the purpose this discussion is a business/vendor that doesn't collect the sales tax when it sells a new retail item to an end user/consumer and/or give that tax to the government. It's up to each business/vendor to decide whether or not they want to violate NRST laws. A business/vendor could eliminate it's own business by breaking the NRST laws. Your anonymity as a consumer/purchaser is greater with the NRST.
What businesses/vendors do you think would eliminate their own business by violating NRST laws?