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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
You don't need a federal tax; you just need a federal law requiring out-of-state businesses to collect sales taxes on products sold in other states. A bill like this has been floating around in congress for ten years of so, but it never gets much traction.
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That's because such laws were ruled unconstitutional decades ago, when mail order (and that's what buying physical products off the internet is) was big business. There's nothing new, legally, to explore there.