Internet Sales Tax...

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I remember discussing this some months back (in Off Topic I believe) and many people saying it couldn't happen...well, it looks like it's getting closer. This will affect downloadable merchandise as well, IE: ITunes, Xbox, etc.

How in the world are they going to make this manageable? 50 states, tens of thousands of cities, counties, and other random tax areas....it's going to be insane. When I worked for one company I had to input the tax codes for only 6 states (Missouri, California, Texas, Washington, Illinois and Georgia ) and all of the counties, cities, and other tax areas for each state into our computer system...it took me weeks....I can't imagine doing all 50. Each company would have to register to collect tax in all states, there would be ridiculous amounts of paper work, time and manpower to put it into operation....it just seems crazy to me. Hopefully it won't go through...but since I have lost almost all faith in the common sense of our leaders, it probably will.