Is an Internet sales tax coming?

By Ylan Q. Mui
Washington Post
Jul. 30, 2010

"That's because the *perk* has also *cost* states as much as $23 billion in *lost revenue* by some estimates, and they want it *back*."

Are you f&#%ing kidding me?

Not being robbed at gunpoint is a *perk*?

Not having the states stealing from people is a *cost*?

They *lost* this revenue which they have literally no claim to?

Now they "want it *back*", as if the products of other people's labor was ever theirs?

How much nonsense was fit into just that one sentence? It is so twisted on all points, it literally turns reality on its head.

The state is a gang of criminal robbers, they want to steal more peoples money so they can get more power over people, therefor they are working to create more laws to steal more wealth from the population and anyone who doesn't comply they will have their goons murder if they resist.

How's that for a setup? - ChrisA movement is slowly building in Washington to banish one of the biggest perks of shopping online: not paying sales tax.

That's because the perk has also cost states as much as $23 billion in lost revenue by some estimates, and they want it back. Rep. Bill Delahunt (D-Mass.) this morning enlisted Republican South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds (R) and other state lawmakers to rally support for his proposed Main Street Fairness Act, which would make it easier for states to go after the money.

"We can't get a hold of it," Rounds said in an interview this morning. He said that Internet retailers "have a competitive advantage" over in-state businesses, which are required to collect the tax.

The history of Internet sales tax -- or, rather, lack thereof -- goes back to a 1992 Supreme Court decision that found that retailers only had to collect sales tax in states where they have a physical presence. Part of the reason was that each state's tax code was so complex that it became too onerous for out-of-state retailers to deal with. Instead, shoppers were supposed to keep tabs on what they bought, calculate the sales tax and pay it on their own. Of course, few people actually do this and states considered the lost tax not worth going after.

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