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I hardly think your decision not to pay your sales/use tax is like the boston tea party (where they took goods and threw them in the water, not where they secretly avoided paying taxes on those goods).

I will remind you that you are guilty of several laws before you get of out bed this morning. Why have you not submitted your life to following all these laws. Do you realize the burden of this tax for recording keeping? Do you have the 10-40hours a year to make sure you follow this law?

In and of it self it may not be a big deal but each one of these taxes and laws is a straw. The story of the straw that broke the camels back is getting real, the same as for our founders. The tea tax was a straw, but it was the final straw.

Revolutions begin small. First they are private rebellions and then they become open. Would your really believe that throwing the tea in the water was the first step? Like you I am an honest person, and I struggle with this issue. The enemy knows we are law abiding and uses it against us.

Will you be law abiding right up to the point where they take everything from you? When does your revolution begin?

Do you realize the burden of this tax for recording keeping? Do you have the 10-40hours a year to make sure you follow this law?

Oddly, that is my argument for why we need to fix it so the sales tax is collected by the companies -- because that is why the burden falls on every individual. A vast majority of the companies already have a process to collect and remit sales tax, at least to ONE state, so if we simply had a central software system where every state's sales tax was kept, it would take very little effort to upgrade online sales programs to use it.

Amazon already has the ability to collect sales tax for virtually all the states, because it's software front sells products from companies like Target and others which have presence in most states.

I will remind you that you are guilty of several laws before you get of out bed this morning.

I doubt most of us are breaking laws while we sleep; but clearly we all break laws, just as we all break the commandments of God. The question is whether we do so deliberately.

If you want to rebel against the "use tax", I think that's great. But please, actually DO the rebelling. If people spoke up about their refusal, we could get the laws changed. It's all the people who keep silent, and surreptitiously break the law without notice, that do little to solve the problem.

IN fact, my goal in these threads is two-fold; first, to let honest people know that they are breaking the law, so those honest, moral, upright people can correct their error. And second, to get those same people mad enough to actually DO something about it.