It is very easy to agree with one of the two underlying premises in Matt Cameron's column "Cyber Cents," which appeared in the Cavalier Daily on April 22. That premise is that businesses should be taxed equally. If a business has a store, it should not have to pay retail taxes while Amazon.com does not. (Property taxes are another matter.) Both businesses sell products to residents in specific states and it is unfair that physical stores have an extra burden on the same sale.
The other premise that Mr. Cameron sets forth is that the solution to government debts and big government spending is to raise taxes. This premise is incorrect. One does not solve problems of big government by giving the government more money to spend. One solves such problems by having the government reduce spending. Considering the runaway train that is the U.S. national debt, it appears that the government needs to cut its spending by a very large amount.
Joel Taubman\nSEAS I
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