this hasn’t passed yet has it?.....I can’t imagine getting any real deals on the internet if now we’re going to be taxed for it...
I think there will be plenty of deals, just like there are today. There’s no way that say, a local ma and pa computer store can match the deal-power of a TigerDirect or Egghead, but now both will have to pay the same sales tax, is all. In every case I can think of, the “deal” was more than just the difference between sales tax and no sales tax.
Here’s the thing: like it or not someone has to pay to plow the snow, fix the potholes, provide the fire and police protection, etc. I like a deal as much as anyone but I’d rather see the $ going to my local gov’t who are people I know and can call up or go look in the eye than to avoid the sales tax and have to rely on federal tax $ trickling down to the local level to pay for needed services.
The real battle ought to be over keeping more tax dollars at the local level rather than allowing federal and state bload and inefficiency to go on.