The RINO-aided Senate Internet sales tax bill

We knew they'd eventually seek this as another source to siphon. Make no mistake about it: this had nothing to do with fairness, and everything to do with more revenue...not to pay down the debt, but to provide a buffer for more spending and waste.

Wired: The “internet sales tax” approved yesterday by the Senate won’t likely stall the overall growth the online retail economy. The migration of commerce to the web and mobile devices is about much more than the tax-free percentage shaved off in online shopping carts.

But the transition to an omnichannel sales-tax system will hardly be seamless, at least according to opponents of the so-called Marketplace Fairness Act. In this huge new experiment in regulating interstate commerce, they say small online businesses will wind up playing the guinea pigs.

That’s exactly what the big retailers supporting the measure want, says Brian Bieron, senior director of global public policy at eBay Inc.

“They’re businesses. They want to put a tax cost on their little competitors,” he told Wired before the final vote.

This equates to yet another federal perversion of interstate commerce, forcing the states to submit to DC's ill will 'for their own good' you see. The online mom-and-pop shops could literally be devastated by the cost of more the burdensome nightmare.

In the roll call, you'll find most of the usual Senate RINO miscreants lined up behind their Democratic cohorts to help pass this one, along with a few tea party turncoats and a couple of downright disappointing votes...

Alexander (R-TN), Blunt (R-MO), Boozman (R-AR), Chambliss (R-GA), Coats (R-IN), Cochran (R-MS), Collins (R-ME), Corker (R-TN), Crapo (R-ID), Enzi (R-WY), Fischer (R-NE), Grassley (R-IA), Hoeven (R-ND), Isakson (R-GA), Johanns (R-NE), McCain (R-AZ), Portman (R-OH), Risch (R-ID), Sessions (R-AL), Shelby (R-AL), Thune (R-SD), Wicker (R-MS)

Note that you won't find the rock solid Ted Cruz or fellow like-minded conservatives Mike Lee and Rand Paul on this one, though. Good!

Related link: See who voted for passage of the Senate Internet sales tax bill

The LA Slimes seem to think that Boehner is unlikely to support the internet sales tax bill in the House...I wouldn't hold my breath depending on a principled decision from that clown.