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Yes, this sums it up. State-based taxes and fees on goods are pretty easily circumventable when you buy in another state, or, you know, on a website.

But this also conveniently ignores the fact that the same brand of blue-fearing SC republican also dominates the NC state legislature [0]. I can imagine NC easily passing a similar law in an after hours closed door special session. So the more rational GA, TN, and VA states should be excited.

[0] See all behavior since McCrory was ousted from being Governor and the State Supreme Court flipping pro-Dem.

South Carolina is a weird place. I always thought that it was like a southern version of Pennsylvania or New Hampshire -- the regional "vice" state. They have fireworks, strippers, cheaper gas etc.

A vice state? This Pennsylvania?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_laws_of_Pennsylvania

We actually have software companies here, so no that's actually not as likely. It's the exact reason this happened in south carolina and not say georgia.

To be fair, they might also go to Georgia.