The State Editorial -- Internet Sales Take Ever-Larger Bite Out of Tax
Internet Sales Take Ever-Larger Bite Out of Tax
The following editorial, calling for the collection of sales tax for online purchases, appeared in the October 25, 2003, edition of The State, a daily newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina.
Remember the first time you surfed the Internet? The first time you bought something over the Internet? Probably not. Cyberspace has become so ubiquitous that it's easy to forget that most people didn't even know what "online" meant a mere decade ago.
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