No, it's a great plan. What California really needs is more taxes. (Please forget that Gov. Davis was recalled just a few years ago for raising vehicle registration taxes.) Not just that, but web retailers have it easy, and encoding ever-shifting tax laws for various localities from which orders might be placed is not onerous at all. (Remember, kids, some states apply sales tax to juice, and some only apply it if sugar is added!)

This totally won't harm business, and is easy to implement.

[To non-residents of our state: California's legislature is pretty disfuntional, and frequently gridlocked over even simple issues. For example, our budget is often months late, tax returns came back as IOUs one year, and the huge chunk of funding appropriated to build prisons due to severe overcrowding that has had us in trouble with the federal government for years hasn't resulted in one new prison.

So don't worry too much over every idea that floats through our Assembly. We're a somewhat pathological case.]