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I used to be a retailer, and I find it discouraging when somebody comes in and they pick something up and they say, 'Now if you'll sell it to me without the sales tax, I'll buy it.'

Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001.

In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.

I'm like tax. You're going to pay one way or the other.

You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.

The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues. It matters not whether its proponents have a 'D' or an 'R' after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.

I believe - we all pay taxes. I'm happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That's going to bother you.

It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.

I do most of my shopping online. It's just convenient for me.