Ask HN: How do you feel about companies collecting online sales tax?

While it decreases the amount of time and effort to determine what sales and use taxes I owe to the State when taxes are due, I don't like companies collecting sales tax online. How do I know if they are truly remitting the sales tax they are collecting? Yes, they would face prosecution for falsely collecting sales tax and not remitting it but what if they aren't located in the the U.S.? Tracking down and determining what online businesses are actually properly registered with my state to collect sales tax take more time and resources than if I just track my purchases that need use taxes paid.