You guys know that all this was triggered many years ago when state and local governments saw they were losing their expected tax income from local sales & services to online sales from out of state businesses where people weren't paying any taxes, right?

So, if you want your roads paved and your police paid... and the original source of the funds has dried up or decreased dramatically due to massive increases in online sales w/o taxes, what's the solution? Make the online vendors collect and submit the taxes, or raise your local taxes (again) on something that can't be side-stepped... like your property taxes.

Not saying I like the solution, but it certainly makes sense. And the interesting thing -- well, I think it's interesting -- is the first person I heard get on a soapbox about needing to tax online sales was the owner of a local speedshop who is no longer in business. And this was at least 20 years ago when he was going off about it.