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Shouldn’t this require an amendment to the constitution, to eliminate the constitution’s clause forbidding the taxing interstate commerce?



> Shouldn’t this require an amendment to the constitution, to eliminate the constitution’s clause forbidding the taxing interstate commerce?

No such clause exists; there is a clause in Art. I, Sec. 9 prohibiting state import and export duties, but a tax on sales applied equally to sales into the state regardless of whether the origin is in or out of state is not an import duty, and therefore not prohibited.




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