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States already have the power to do “origin” based sales tax. Federal legislation is not required for this idea.

State legislators don’t want to do this because of their local business lobbies, because they don’t want to be seen as responsible for enacting additional taxes and because high sales tax states like CA, NY and IL would be disadvantaged when shoppers flock and businesses relocate to states with lower sales tax rates.

This legislation is their cluster**** solution to their political problems. The states pass the buck to the Feds and the Feds claim its not a new tax, just a new enforcement method, plus these are state taxes so blame your state for the high sales tax rates.

I live in a non sales tax state by choice, but this law will force me at my own expense to become a tax collector for 45 states that I do not live in and cannot vote in while making me legally liable for any errors I might make and subject to their tax law, audits, fines and punishment.

It’s not enough that I am a tax slave to the Fedgov and the state I live in. I now get to be everybody’s tax b*tch.

“States already have the power to do “origin” based sales tax. Federal legislation is not required for this idea.”

Well, maybe states have the power, but they don’t do it. And what they *do* tax—transactions involving purchasers from their home states even if the transaction took place elsewhere—is something that my proposal would make illegal. So what would occur if Congress passed my proposal would be that states would begin to tax all transactions involving sellers in the state, even if the purchaser was from outside the state, since that no longer would be result in double taxation on purchasers from other states and since they no longer would be able to collect sales taxes on out-of-state purchses from their residents.

I know full well why states like NY and CA oppose such a change: they want to tax their residents who buy stuff out-of-state to avoid paying high sales taxes. Well, I think we can get this passed in the House even without any votes from CA or NY (there are only 21 Republicans from those states in Congress, and some of them would be willing to vote for the proposal).