Quoted from Luckydogg420:military spending or border control, or just used to line the fat pockets
these are state taxes, not federal. which is why its taken this long to enforce
prior system for out of state purchases:
'honor system' where the buyer is responsible to volunteer the tax money to their own state
now for qualified purchases and businesses:
sellers have to deal with up to 50 different tax rates and tax agencies to fwd to on buyers behalf