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Originally Posted by jersysman
I agree with a post further up in this thread that mentioned it is time to stop with this taxing everything under the sun to give these states more revenue. They should run their states better, cut spending, cut subsides, heck just stop playing politics and we all will be much better off.
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I do feel bad for the local people who want to start their own business and find that their sale prices are higher than Amazon's because they have to pay 7-9% tax if they sell, say, bicycle equipment...but customers who buy from Amazon do not have the pay this tax. This does hurt local businesses, and I don't think we want to do that.
However, the problem would be a lot less severe if sales taxes weren't so high - when I was a kid, most sales taxes were in the 3-5% range, with the exception of states that did not have income taxes. Now my state's sales tax is 7%, but in some cities or parts of cities, it's 8% - and it's 9 or just a little over in parts of Chicago. Those kinds of sales taxes start to feel illegitimate, and I think that's part of why there is so much resistance to a national sales tax equalization law.