Clever but why should this sales tax go to the state I live in instead of say the community where the item was shipped from? It's really more of a duty or use t

Clever but why should this sales tax go to the state I live in instead of say the community where the item was shipped from? It's really more of a duty or use tax in such a case, like in the old days where I would order something from a catalog not in the state I live in, I was supposed to pay a use tax to this state of the difference between the sales tax here and what I might have paid in taxes when ordering when I did my state income taxes. They really should not call it a sales tax, it potentially gets collected by a state that has nothing to do with the sale at all and the cities and states that had to do with it did not collect any of it.