I am leaning towards state’s collecting sales taxes that are due.
In Maine, you essentially make people criminals as they are the sales tax agent for purchases that end up back in Maine.
A few other points - as the sales tax collection drops in our state, the pressure on property taxes and income taxes goes up. I think that is not a good thing.
I also think there are some equity issues. Young more affluent people are avoiding the sales taxes while the elderly are still traditional brick and mortar purchasers. So we have system where the young urban dwellers buy most things online and simply don’t pay the sales tax.
I am not leaning, I am asserting that sales taxes are an onerous obstacle loaded atop an already overburdened citizen.
State and federal tax apparatuses need to be dismantled and the inherent bureaucracies sent on to gainful employment.
The more money you allow them to take from you the larger that government entity becomes.