{"id":371,"date":"2003-03-06T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-06T11:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=371"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:42:45","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:42:45","slug":"taxing-e-commerce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=371","title":{"rendered":"Taxing E-Commerce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/03\/06\/opinion\/06THU2.html\" Target=\"Offsite\"><i>NY Times<\/i> editorial<\/a> re-visits the old debate about states collecting sales taxes on &#8220;online retail transactions&#8221;.  Every time I hear about taxing &#8220;Internet sales&#8221;, I wonder why they seem to fixate on the Internet as opposed to any other form of &#8220;remote shopping&#8221;. It&#8217;s true that the internet has driven an increase in shopping from home, but if you&#8217;re going to write a new law, make it fair.  If I order merchandise from out-of-state and have it shipped to me, it should be taxed (or not taxed) equally, regardless of whether I order it via the Internet, telephone, mail, fax, or carrier pigeon.  Maybe the legislation being considered actually does that, but whenever people talk about it, they just talk about &#8220;internet sales&#8221; as if mail-order shopping never existed until Al Gore invented the internet.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent NY Times editorial re-visits the old debate about states collecting sales taxes on &#8220;online retail transactions&#8221;. Every time I hear about taxing &#8220;Internet sales&#8221;, I wonder why they seem to fixate on the Internet as opposed to any other form of &#8220;remote shopping&#8221;. It&#8217;s true that the internet has driven an increase in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=371\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Taxing E-Commerce<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9mOtr-5Z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}