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Shouldn’t this require an amendment to the constitution, to eliminate the constitution’s clause forbidding the taxing interstate commerce?
by marze 8y ago
Shouldn’t this require an amendment to the constitution, to eliminate the constitution’s clause forbidding the taxing interstate commerce?
- dragonwriter 8y ago> Shouldn’t this require an amendment to the constitution, to eliminate the constitution’s clause forbidding the taxing interstate commerce? No such clause exists; there is a clause in Art. I, Sec. 9 prohibiting state import and export duties, but a tax on sales applied equally to sales into the state regardless of whether the origin is in or out of state is not an import duty, and therefore not prohibited.