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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Whether the state is "losing" hypothetical revenues is irrelevant.
It's not as if they *own* the residents and can charge for access to their pocketbooks, though many politicians in and out of Congress act as if they do and portray not-raising-taxes as "cutting taxes".
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"Owning" residents isn't at all the same thing as ensuring that everyone pays fairly for sales tax. Getting back to the original topic of this thread, if a company can sell things more cheaply over the Internet simply because they don't have to charge sales tax, that gives them a commercial advantage over those who do have to charge tax. Business should be a level playing field, at least as far as taxation.