Part of the way I remember the early Amazon is they were bootstrapped by the fact that web purchases were, for a time, exempted from state sales taxes. Some of

Part of the way I remember the early Amazon is they were bootstrapped by the fact that web purchases were, for a time, exempted from state sales taxes. Some of that history here it would seem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_taxes_in_the_United_States#Internet_transactions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_taxes_in_the_United_Stat...