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Senators Vow To Renew Bid For State Taxes On Remote Internet Sales

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 4, 2012 @01:44AM from the coming-and-going dept.

jfruh writes "A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators are working hard to make it legal for U.S. states to collect sales tax on any sales made to their residents, even if the sellers live elsewhere. They tried to add an amendment making the change to an unrelated defense appropriations bill, but the attempt was defeated. They have vowed to try again."

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Re:Um... by Toonol · 2012-12-04 02:37 · Score: 4, Interesting

I would speculate that those who pretend spending is the only problem probably ignore much of the past 15 years of government action.

You mean the last fifteen years where spending has gone from 1.6 trillion to 3.7 trillion? Where total tax revenue is still at the highest it's ever been? Where we would have an instant surplus if we could simply bring the federal budget down to where it was in 2004?