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I think this whole thing with Amazon is making them look silly. They're doing the Texas Two-Step with several states, We're In, We're Out, trying to avoid taxes. As far as I am concerned, they are wasting goodwill in all this. They've already laid off several Texan workers and now they're trying to coyly snake back in for a few years -- no thank you, Amazon.
I'm a federal kind of girl, though. I think the easiest thing to do would be to say "everyone pays a federal tax on an item that sells for $20 or more". No more of this state tax silliness that is difficult for (small) online retailers to try to figure out. (Though lets not kid ourselves that the Amazon legal department wouldn't have it all covered.)
And for what it's worth, the OP was VERY firmly on the "no online taxes" side, so this was already an economic argument to being with -- let's not pile on ElfWreck for expressing a difference of opinion.
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