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Ya, O.K.
An AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION is the ONLY WAY to change the rule.
Other wise, NO TAX SHALL BE LAID ON ITEMS SOLD BETWEEN STATES.
We will not be a party to ILLEGAL TAX COLLECTION.
Indeed, an amendment to the Constitution would end the problem once and for all, but I am sorry, The End, it is an “import / export” thing. You used the correct term “exported” in previous posts — “sold between states” is not accurate.
As has been pointed out before, the Constitution says no tax on exports. Accordingly the Revenooers are trying to grab taxes bleeding us dry by taxing IMPORTS into their states. Stuff exported out of a state cannot be taxed, per the Constitution. Sadly our founding fathers did not protect us by ALSO including in the same paragraph that Stuff IMPORTED INTO a state cannot be taxed.
But then, the Founding Fathers had no idea what nightmarish things were going to happen over the next few hundred years and sales taxes were not even a gleam in anyone’s eyes, back then, when many citizens’ priority was simply to be able to get to the next springtime without dying.