IMO California is getting greedier & greedier. I recently bought a used
computer though OnSale.com, the thing was shipped from Michigan and they
have the audacity to charge me state sales tax. Simply because Onsale (or
Egghead) has an office in Menlo Park.

Then there was the time I got a letter from WR&Q saying they had to charge
me state sales tax because they "were a presence" at a trade show in CA -
this for a purchase I made 6 months prior.

Then this 50 cent cigarette tax - regardless of your views - has spawned an
underground Internet cigarette sales presence to CA residents.

I think it's time we had our own tea party but on a more practical level it
will be interesting to see how they can enforce this.

With our sales tax ranging from 7.75% to 8.something - depending on county -
I have been making it a point of shopping out of state for relatively big
ticket items.

We bought our 917LX used from a company in Washington who (rightfully)
didn't charge us sales tax.

I just got back from a Texas BBQ and was taking with a friend, a marketing
professor from Baylor - about the implications of Net marketing. I feel that
we cannot see the implications today and he felt we could.

Be that as it may it will be hard for the bureaucrats here to police every
dot.com in the country selling goods to Californians.

Bill
William L. Brandt
Sacramento, CA USA
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