I am concerned that this bill, if signed into law, could open the door for a slew of frivolous lawsuits based on questionable allegations of age discrimination. The 1999-00 Budget significantly increases funding for education. As e-commerce increases government officials will become more creative in finding ways to tax you for every transaction you make on the Internet. I am opposed to taxing Internet transactions. Without knowing it, most broke the law.
Compliance is virtually nil.
Freedom from a thicket of 30,000 state and local taxing jurisdictions has provided predictability to the Web economy. But we have yet to address the long-term tax consequences of the movement of trade on line. That's a lot of lost sales tax. When the moratorium expires in 2001, the Internet will become fair game. Retailers, who can't or won't sell on line, from barbers to boutiques, will clamor for equal sales tax treatment.