[John O]

If we exempt sales tax because it is a virtual business, how is that creating a fair and free marketplace?

The answer to making men free is to free the slaves, not to enslave the rest of men.

If you want sales taxes to be equal then stop charging sales tax to the retail stores. Problem solved.

Taxing an entity that has no presence in your state is evil. The government of texas (or any other state) has no right to charge sales tax to a business not in it's state.

They can come after the buyers and try to collect the tax, but then most buyers have slept since then and don't remember ever buying anything over the internet.

Destroying one segemnt of the free market will not help any other segment. Eventually the business activity will just go entirely black market. (And justifiably so in my opinion)

[Raider Sam]

Then advocate for no sales tax at all. But when sales tax exists, it must be applied equally. And sales tax isnt going away. Would you prefer only income tax and no sales tax?

Im pretty sure that people who buy online remember doing it.