I have serious doubts that this "we're-really-not-raising-your-taxes" tax will pass if it makes it to the House. It appears that it's very likely just another political move on the part of Obama and the Democrats to tee up an attack on Republicans as not being "fair" to the locals in brick-and-mortar retail outlets.
Somehow the Republicans have to sell the idea that if the local state and county governments want "fairness" they should eliminate, or at least reduce radically, their local sales taxes.
Any sales tax is highly regressive. It hurts low income people much more than it hurts Obama's "millionaires and billionaires". So why not attack Dems for that? There is supposed to be a special tax on "Cadillac" health care plans right? Why not establish a sales tax on "Cadillac" everything else? Why? Because Dems have tried that in the past and it destroyed jobs. That's all taxes ever do.
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