{"id":24551,"date":"2017-09-18T12:19:27","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T16:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=24551"},"modified":"2017-09-18T12:20:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T16:20:24","slug":"great-news-americans-overwhelmingly-oppose-internet-sales-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/24551\/great-news-americans-overwhelmingly-oppose-internet-sales-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Great News:  Americans Overwhelmingly Oppose Internet Sales Tax 66% to 21%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a long list of reasons that we&#8217;ve consistently highlighted, an <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/43-taxes-and-economy\/1788-dangerous-marketplace-fairness-act-would-increase-sales-taxes-and-expand-state-taxation-authority\" target=\"_blank\">internet sales tax<\/a> allowing state authorities to tax people and businesses far beyond their borders is a destructive, indefensible idea.<\/p>\n<p>On that front, there&#8217;s great news to report. \u00a0According to a fresh Rasmussen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/business\/taxes\/september_2017\/americans_aren_t_pulling_for_an_internet_sales_tax\" target=\"_blank\">survey<\/a>, this is one of those encouraging areas where fairness, policy wisdom and public opinion are in accord:<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A majority of Americans do at least some shopping online, and they are not fans of taxing those purchases. \u00a0A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 66% of American adults oppose a sales tax in their state on items purchased online, even if the store they buy from is not in their state. \u00a0Just 21% favor an internet sales tax, while 13% are not sure.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>As much-needed <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/24536\/cfif-joins-coalition-of-conservative-orgs-urging-congress-to-pass-pro-growth-tax-reform\/\" target=\"_blank\">comprehensive tax reform<\/a> negotiations begin in Washington, some are advocating allowing an internet sales tax under the false banner &#8220;Marketplace Fairness Act&#8221; as part of the deal. \u00a0It&#8217;s encouraging to see that American voters aren&#8217;t buying it, no pun intended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a long list of reasons that we&#8217;ve consistently highlighted, an internet sales tax allowing state authorities to tax people and businesses far beyond their borders is a destructive, indefensible idea. On that front, there&#8217;s great news to report. \u00a0According to a fresh Rasmussen survey, this is one of those encouraging areas where fairness, policy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[308,4809,4168,4983,71],"class_list":["post-24551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-internet","tag-internet-sales-tax","tag-marketplace-fairness-act","tag-sales-tax","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24553,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24551\/revisions\/24553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}