As a person who believes in local stores, I'm actually in favor of sales tax or whatever tax on internet purchases. These taxes just continue to make life much harder for brick and mortaer stores who already have to fight battles because of rent, electricity, employee costs, etc while some of these costs are the same for internet busineeses, the 8 percent is not the same.
Thus, and not just in cards, in fairness to local stores there does need to be a level playing field. I could go on more of a rant, but let's just say local sales tax is unfair to small businesses as compared to internet only ones.
Rich
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