“Main Street brick and mortar can successfully compete with click-based e-commerce if the rules are fair and that way everybody, especially the American consumer wins.”
BS! Most times shipping costs far more than the instate sales tax, but you couldn’t find the item locally at any price.
Now all the small online retailers will close and we will be out of luck.
An example is mower blades for my 50” cut Cub Cadet. New blades cost about $75 at TSC, but I can buy the exact same set of blades for $25-$30 online from a warehouse. Will they now go out of business?
While I disagree with the ruling, your analysis is incorrect. Small businesses will use simple programs that will apply the taxes—it’s already baked into most prevalent platforms. Yes, it’s a pain, but anyone who expects any government to miss any opportunity for increasing tax revenue is living in a fantasy. This won’t end online commerce, nor will it save brick-and-mortar businesses.
The next step is outright price controls. Why should those big box stores be able to charge less than local retailers? The horror!