In their search for any and all dollars they might be able to grab to fund ever more government spending, the statist looters again are making a run at collecting sales taxes on internet transactions by businesses located outside the looters' jurisdictions.
The looters arguments ignore the fact that such businesses use none of their jurisdictions' services and derive no benefit from them.
They also ignore the fact that the out-of-state businesses have no vote or representation in the state and the idea that taxation without representation is tyranny that once was firmly held in this country. That idea has gone by the wayside, as is shown by the plethora of hotel and airport taxes that have been enacted and risen to increasing exorbitant levels in recent years.
Politicians love being able to extort taxes from people who have no recourse at the ballot box.
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