>The taxes they pay to the states in which they do business cover their use of the roads, no? Yeah, and they cover grade school education, which FedEx doesn't

>The taxes they pay to the states in which they do business cover their use of the roads, no? Yeah, and they cover grade school education, which FedEx doesn't directly use at all. That was my point about how taxes work. Regarding your point about regions, A) The tax is on the consumers, not on amazon.com (or equivalent, proper noun provided to eliminate pronoun confusion). B) Whether or not amazon.com 'exists' in that region, they're certainly doing business in it, no? Otherwise there'd be no taxes to collect. Brave new world, used to be it was impossible to do business somewhere you didn't have a shop, mail order was nothing close to the web. That's why tax codes and enforcement methods need to be updated for the 21st century. It's less competitive and less capitalist to have different tax codes for the same goods (or even different goods, IMO, with rare exceptions).