I just love to see people defending tax scams. (For the record, states differ on what they subject to sales tax [the point that the boys and girls at Amazon whine about], but I would be fairly certain that UPS deliveries are not subject to tax in most states.)
Anyhow, just to make things clearer, the sales tax is primarily a mechanism for collecting tax from consumers in the state. We can do analyses of incidence, which will differ some by product, but in most cases, most of the incidence will fall on the consumer.
Given this fact, imagine that we have the Jeff Bezos tax scam shop (a.k.a. Amazon.com). They don't make you pay the tax. Naturally you will be willing to give most of your savings to Mr. Bezos, since even if you just managed to pocket 20 percent of the tax savings, you're still way ahead.
This is the Amazon.com business model -- it's Internet existence is beside the point. Honest anti-tax conservatives propose cutting taxes, not creating tax scams for those who have the opportunity and willingness to do so.
Anyhow, just to make things clearer, the sales tax is primarily a mechanism for collecting tax from consumers in the state. We can do analyses of incidence, which will differ some by product, but in most cases, most of the incidence will fall on the consumer.
Given this fact, imagine that we have the Jeff Bezos tax scam shop (a.k.a. Amazon.com). They don't make you pay the tax. Naturally you will be willing to give most of your savings to Mr. Bezos, since even if you just managed to pocket 20 percent of the tax savings, you're still way ahead.
This is the Amazon.com business model -- it's Internet existence is beside the point. Honest anti-tax conservatives propose cutting taxes, not creating tax scams for those who have the opportunity and willingness to do so.