Jonathan Johnson: States continue straw-grasping internet tax gambit

This week, the South Dakota Supreme Court dealt a blow to states’ winner-take-all, bet-the-house gambit to get the U.S. Supreme Court to allow states to regulate interstate commerce by imposing tax collection obligations on out-of-state retailers.States have long sought to shift their burden to collect state sales tax to out-of-state retailers. Fortunately, Supreme Court precedent stands in the way. 25 years ago, the Supreme Court foresaw the evils that could and would result if states had