[Blessed]

>Personally, I'll go along with anything that reduces the amount of taxes I pay. I'm happy to have the internet be a tax free zone<

Even if it gives an unfair advantage to one retailer over another without any increase in productivity other than obtaining a government subsidy?I thought Freepers were for Free enterprise.

[jess35]

You're in the wrong place if you want to argue that the lack of a tax is in effect a government subsidy. When the government doesn't put a gun to my head and take money by force, they're not giving me something for free.

[zeugma]

Yes, we are for free enterprise. I fail to see how yet another expansion of taxing authority helps free enterprise at all. I didn't think Freepers were supposed to be tax collectors for the welfare state.

Online retailers have the disadvantage of the immediacy of delivery as is the case with B&M retailers. They also have the disadvantage of shipping costs that don't scale the way that it does for storefronts.

Personally, I'm in favor of getting rid of any tax I can, so we can better restrict the size of government. I realize Bush and republican politicians in general aren't in favor of smaller government, but I'd bet you'll find many here on FreeRepublic who still are.