Groups Working Hard to Tax Online Purchases

New York appears to be leading the charge of trying to make online companies collect sales tax for Internet purchase even when the company is not in New York. There are a number of states looking to further tax their citizens. Some bricks-and-mortar companies have banded together with states to form the Streamlined Sales Tax Governing Board. Their idea is to simplify the tax rules in order to be able to collect more taxes.

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Let's get this straight. The economy is down and everywhere you look they are telling us that people have less money; things are tight. So the Government answer is to find newer ways to tax us. Does anyone else see the problem with this? Shouldn't these states be looking at ways of reducing costs? A tax-deficit has two potential solutions; "collect more taxes" isn't the only solution.