We all have our hot-button topics, don't we...
I don't have any particular opinion about the EU internet tax issue, but I
must respond to the Florida legislator.
Why, exactly, is tax-free internet sales a fiscally sound policy? It puts
the established local merchant at a disadvantage. It puts the person wanting
to start a bricks-and-morter business at a disadvantage. It forces
governments to raise taxes elsewhere to fund programs that would be funded
by the evaded sales taxes.
Now, I don't like paying tax anymore than anyone else, but why the internet
should get this protected status I can't understand. Perhaps it's the
general wild west nature of the beast?
Now I promise to not revisit this subject.
Bill Pearce
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