More taxes? (Score 1)

The benefit of doing business online and paying out the buttocks for shipping is to save the 8.5% we get charged for sales tax where I live. How many people do you think are going to buy products online from me if I have to slam an additional 8.5% onto them. Locals have to pay it simply because they are getting the benefit of having someone local rape them for cash. It's sad, but at least every county plow truck is brand new and there's a metric ton of open space now preserved..... until the county doesn't have enough money to pay of the financing on the plow trucks and up pops a strip mall to cover for it.