Congress looking to make you pay taxes for online purchases

Some do, some don't. It depends on the state you reside in and the state that the business you purchase from resides in. When you do pay taxes on internet purchases you are paying state taxes, not federal sales tax.

Technicly in many states, the federal government cannot enforce state laws, there are some with such provisions but in many others it is either not described or is out right forbidden. It gets even stickier when it involves states with no sales tax, like mine. We have people all the time comming over here to shop, for every thing from cigs, to liquer to cars and christmas shopping. I am at a loss as to how they are going to work this, since our state laws do not allow for us, as you said, to act as a tax agent for another state and our state laws actually forbids other states attempting to collect revenue from purchases here, though it has been tried. We had some Massachusettes state officials nosing around in one of our liquer store parking lots a few years ago, taking licence plate numbers of people from Mass who were purchasing liquer here, the officials were aressted for it. So what we have now is a problem where as this may actualy interfere with state laws and may not even be valid or recognized in some states. It seems to me the solution for this is for states with sales tax to begin enforcing this at the state level, there is perfectly solid ground for them to do so in states with sales tax. Even if you are shopping from a state with no sales tax, if you are making a purchase in a state with sales tax, you are obligated to pay said tax. When I am physicly in Maine or Vermont, as I am frequently, and I make purchases in those states, I pay what ever sales tax is aplicable to the item. So it would just seem to me that the same would be required if I were to be shopping online for goods in one of those states. I just hate to see everything being handed over to the federal government, especialy when it is more appropriate as a matter of state law.

yep that would be the one. Sorry about your blood preasure.

He also said he would only raise taxes on those earning over $250K and yet people believed that lie. Sales tax, both online and off, are regressive meaning that the less you earn, the higher percentage of your income you pay.

And not to mention slashing the mortgage interest credit for people who own a home and reducing charitable contributions. I don't own a home. Land prices here in the Bay area are out of control, so my DH and I rent a nice townhome, but there are many people who count on that interest to lower their income to get more taxes back. 0bama just shafted them and then broke it off inside them.