Someone with a brain should just write a law that says all internet sales are taxed at 5% with the taxes thrown in a pot. Then the pot is split 50 ways between the states and everyone is told to shut up and share.
You can't POSSIBLY be serious!
Here in oz we went to the VAT/GST system a couple of decades ago, It did take the complications out of our sales tax system - I was selling computer gear and items would be taxed differently for all sorts of BS reasons, the flat 10% made life very easy on that front, it did make every business have to collect and pay the duty, many service based businesses didnt have to do that previously, meh
The big problem they made was the unequal distribution, they are just working out a "fairer" system now, we had the problem of one state mining a butt tonne out of the ground, but the bulk of the tax revenue went to the states with higher population
Nothings as easy as just splitting it 50 ways
I've read lots of books and seen plenty of movies with "dark futures" but so far nothings come close to what i can see coming.
Anyone remember the movie Idiocracy?
