Hubby smoked. For years I bought cigarettes from the Indian reservations.....til Congress made it illegal. He quit smoking.
I order a ton of stuff online. If they do this I will quit spending....period.
I refuse to participate in their schemes.
YEP....I’ve been gathering up “items” for the past 2 years that I think we might want/need over the next 10+ years...instead of waiting....luckily we can do that financially....plus I figured what with “retirement” looming....best buy the stuff now, than wait until fersher we have no money! (We are fine for retirement....unless, of course everything collapses....but, then we’ll be in the same boat as everyone else.) I’ve been wondering when the QUIT spending time would come...looks like we are getting close.
Have you considered getting a forged tax-exempt permit? With one of those, you can buy things at your local store and they won’t collect the sales tax.
Of course, it is illegal to forge a tax-exempt permit; but it’s also illegal in virtually every sales-tax state to NOT pay a “use tax” on online purchases that aren’t taxed.
Durbin isn’t adding a new law here — your state likely already has a law requiring the payment. Durbin is proposing making it easier for people to obey the law by collecting the sales tax at the time of purchase. I know it would be easier than collecting the information through the year and filing a form to pay at the end of the year, like I do now.