Speaking of the insidious spread of Internet state sales tax collection, many thought the EU was the font from which Washington drank its policy formulation cool aid. But wait! How's this for weird? I bought an item from an English retailer thru his website. The vendor advised me that the 20% VAT was being debited from the inclusive advertised price, because EU tax policy requires that anything shipped outside the EU is NOT subject to the VAT. Never thought I'd have anything good to say about the 'Unholy Alliance'.

When the governments, state and federal, can demonstrate that they can stop wasting what they loot now, they will have demonstrated that they need no more.

What BS. Perhaps if the dems would actually start paying their taxes we wouldn't have to resort to such plundering.

The states are little more than the middle managers these days as they are all feasting at the teat of Leviathan.

I agree this is the first shot in the national sales tax, the federal sales tax and the VAT tax.

I wonder how it works with states like mine that don't have a sales tax?