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Trump Wants You To Pay Taxes on Buying Stuff Off The Internet

Hank Berrien

Donald Trump says he wants to strengthen Americans, that he’s in their side. Yet speaking on radio show host Hugh Hewitt’s talk show, Trump joined Hillary Clinton in propounding the notion that there should be an internet sales tax. Reuters reported last July that Clinton said she “supported allowing cities and states to tax online purchases, but she would not mandate it.”

On Thursday, Trump bloviated, “Amazon doesn’t pay tax. … And a lot of people think Amazon should be paying tax, and they’re not, and they’re destroying department stores and retailing all over the country…”

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