Retailers To Lobby Obama to violate states rights and give a Sales Tax Holiday

Retailers To Lobby Obama to violate states rights and give a Sales Tax Holiday.

A U.S. retail trade group asked President-elect Barack Obama Tuesday to add a series of temporary sales tax holidays to an economic stimulus package as a way to revive consumer spending.

The National Retail Federation called for three 10-day periods of sales tax-free shopping in March, July and October 2009, which it said would save consumers almost $20 billion, or $175 for the average family.

Under the NRF's proposal, the federal government would reimburse states for the lost tax revenue.

State sales tax rates range from 2.9 percent to 7.25 percent, the group said.


Really sich a plan would be a violation of States rights. The federal government has no right to get involved in state matters in this way. How would this be tracked anyway? What would prevent states from submitting false data to the feds and collect more tax money that they actualy would have collected?

What would prevent a state that pays stores %.02 for collecting the tax from not deducting this from the amount they claim to the feds to pay them?

This would be a huge waste of money for tax payers to pay the sales tax for rich people.

Is this the CHANGE we voted for?