Voters aren’t buying the Internet sales tax scheme
Hard questions like these are tough for the bill’s proponents to answer, but for their part the American people have made up their minds – they’re not buying into the legislation. In June, a Gallup poll reported 57 percent opposition to an Internet sales tax like that contained in the Marketplace Fairness Act. A month later a poll of 1,000 likely voters commissioned by National Taxpayers Union and R Street Institute found the same 57 percent number, with skepticism across broad demographic and political groups. But the latter survey dug deeper and unearthed other interesting trends.
