Internet Sales Tax
Your March 26 editorial supports taxing the Internet. You correctly note the Supreme Court has ruled that states may not tax a business in another state without a physical presence (“bricks and mortar”) in the state. You did not, however, note that the Constitution, in Article I, Section 9, limits Congress in several areas, including: “No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any state.”
If the state may not tax an Internet business in another state and if the federal government is limited as above, just how do you propose to tax Internet sales?
JIM DODD
San Diego
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The Times has it all backward. The states and local governments aren’t losing money, the public is saving money. Most people think all gang activity takes place on the streets, but the biggest and most dangerous gang is the government gang; they are everywhere. They are on the streets, too, but they are in taxpayer-provided SUVs, and they are after their drug of choice, the taxpayers’ money. And the less of this drug the government gang has, the better off society will be.
The Times probably thinks an income tax cut is a bad idea, too.
ANDREW LEVINSON
Thousand Oaks
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