Since Arkansas — at the behest of Walmart, other retailers and local government — joined in the movement to legislate a means to assess sales taxes on Internet sales, the Amazon war to overturn a similar law in California should be of interest.

The stakes are high enough in California that perhaps it will give some movement to overdue federal legislation to arrive at a universal solution.

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