Collectivists can only play one tune on their fiddle: the tax hike waltz.
Amen, amen, amen!
The solution to our overtaxed local mom&pop and brick and mortal stores not being able to compete with internet businesses is NEVER lower their taxes, but to create from whole cloth a mechanism to force remote businesses who in no way have representation nor will benefit in any way from the funds to become their unpaid tax collectors.