[edcoil]

Government getting “its piece of the action” on all private business transactions and should be stopped.

[moovova]

“The argument in favor of this legislation is “fairness” to brick and mortar retailers...”

Then make brick & mortar stores include a shipping charge on their customer’s receipts...just before the sales tax entry.

[Jack Hammer]

Yet another Obama-era tax to be passed in the midst of a recession.

If they don’t utterly and permamently destroy the economy, it certainly won’t be for lack of trying.

[Buckeye McFrog]

So, this law would require a merchant who has never lived in my state, has no physical presence in my state, no ties whatsoever to my state, to be forced to become a revenue collection agent for my state?

Call me crazy, but I don’t think this survives SECOND contact with the Supreme Court.

[Daveinyork]

I don’t buy on the internet because they don’t collect sales tax, or even because of the price, which if you include s&h is not much if any, lower than b&m. I shop online because I can get stuff that the local b&m does not, or will not, or cannot stock.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Best Buy and Target, two of the loudest voices in favor of the Marketplace Fairness Act, have even colluded with municipal authorities to abuse eminent domain to take Mom's and Pop's property for private gain. (The fact that the Supreme Court said this was legal does not differentiate the underlying ethics from those of a shoplifter who switches price tags in a store to pay a lower price than the seller wants, or to "buy" something that is not for sale.)

Yes, conservative principle number one, attack companies that get large and can provide cheaper products, in order to protect the "mom and pop" businesses.

Anyway, these two companies, and other big companies, support the act because they have to collect sales tax on their internet sales, while Amazon and other large on-line businesses to not.

And there are many large stores that do have different prices online than in the stores -- and Walmart is one of them, I have found items online and went to the store and had to ask for a price match to get the online price.

Some people will do anything to keep from having to pay their sales taxes.

[VideoDoctor]

Notice that the Government is NOW trying to find a way to control BitCoin.

Whether you like or dislike the Bitcoin idea my point is that wherever there is MONEY growth the Government immediately appears on the scene trying to regulate, control and slice themselves a piece of the monetary action.

We had better find a way to STARVE the beast and soon.

[denydenydeny]

It’s infuriating to hear people on this site parrot the government’s talking points about “fairness” and “helping out Main Street” when it’s nothing but a big fat money grab. All the “mom and pop” stores that exist today can’t exist without selling online themselves.