With Online Sales Tax, GOP Undercuts Tax Reform

Fresh off a big win by Republican lawmakers to boost economic freedom of all Americans by lowering their taxes last December; some GOP policy makers would now attenuate that victory by imposing an online sales tax on small businesses. The motive for doing so according to the Wall Street Journal is to put GOP lawmakers on the good side of brick-and-mortar retailers in their home districts who fear small online sellers are undercutting their prices. Online retailers with no physical presence in another state would be obliged to pay the various state and local sales taxes in some 10,000 different