Blame the state and local governments (and especially the disparity among them) for that. Amazon and other big realtailers just said it's not fair that we have

Blame the state and local governments (and especially the disparity among them) for that. Amazon and other big realtailers just said it's not fair that we have to deal with sales tax if smallecommerce.com doesn't. Sales tax is a perfect example of how the government will never give up tax revenue it has come to depend on. The original proposal is that sales tax was fair, because the local business is using local resources (land, employees, infrastructure). Obviously not true with an out-of-state web store. Delivery companies already pay local taxes for the actual shipping, so there shouldn't be any claim against the retailer itself. Use tax, in many areas, was already designed to handle this case, but the government decided that it's easier to go after Amazon than to rely on taxpayers being honest.