California Senate Approves Net Tax Bill

Grant Erickson points to this internet.com story, which says "On Thursday, the California state Senate approved a bill that requires businesses with stores in the state to charge their customers sales tax for purchases made over the Internet." The state's huge ($35 billion) budget deficit is named as a driving force for the measure.

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Re:That is the sound of inevitability....

[pmz]

It's a never ending battle between the republican types (who hate government involvement) and the democratic types who want more centralized/governmental control.

This is an old stereotype that doesn't mean much anymore. Republicans are approximately the same as Democrats with similar levels of soft money contributions and an equal amount of separation from their constituants.

Republicans currently want big government through debatable "Homeland Security" causes.

Democrats currently want big government through naive "feed the poor" causes.

Both are equally misguided and equally wasteful. Call 'em Republocrats or Demolicans--it really doesn't matter.

It is a good time for a third or fourth party to become significant enough to sway votes in congress. Only, then, will the stupidity and polarity of the Bill Clinton impeachment vote, for example, get resolved. Does anyone have the guts to not vote the party line, anymore?