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Originally Posted by Carpe Diem
Collecting sales tax on out of state internet purchases makes perfect sense - as long as the tax goes back to the community (zip code) that the purchase was made from.
Throughout the US, rural communities have been devastated as local businesses, unable to compete with large corporations and internet sales, have lost a large amount of their sales tax base. This is so even though existing sales tax law requires residents to keep track of and pay sales tax on out of state online purchases. It's just that nobody does it.
Drive through any small community and you can see the decay. Collecting this sales tax on online purchases and sending it back to the community where the purchase was made from can transform rural America and bring new life to it. Again, it makes perfect sense.
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I don't see how they are going to enforce this if a business is out of state. What would they do, ban a free market from selling across sate lines? The money won't be going to counties. The money will first go to replenishing a depleted unemployment trust fund. After the fund is replenished, revenue will go toward paying for a commercial rent tax cut.
Personally, I don't need a brick and mortar store. I'm happy to buy from the internet and have the items shipped to me. I don't even go in the grocery store anymore. I order on-line and pick it up.