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Originally Posted by HarryT
So what you're saying is that it's cheaper for you to buy online because you break the law by not paying the taxes that you're legally required to?
That strikes me as both morally reprehensible (tax evasion is stealing from everybody) and legally wrong.
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I personally think it's morally reprehensible for my state to feel it has a right to taxes from a transaction that was completed in another state. But I suspect you and I have wildly differing views of what the scope of government should be and the disturbing (to me) mission creep of government into every aspect of people's lives. Government has become a huge money suck that takes money willy-nilly and poofs it away in a massive display of waste and fraud that should boggle anyone's mind.
This article sums my feelings of the "use" tax pretty well.
http://nevadanewsandviews.com/archives/11857
It is illegal for the state government to collect "sales tax" across state lines due to the commerce clause in the US Constitution so instead states still try to extort this money and call is a "use tax." The entire name is comical -- I'm being taxed to "use" an item I purchased with my own money. I lease a copier/printer for my business and have to pay the "use tax" on it for the privilege of using it, even though it isn't even mine.
Or I suppose I could just be a really morally reprehensible person. Along with all my family, friends, and acquaintances. Hold your nose around us.