re: In response to Amazon's efforts to collect LA sales tax on 1/1/2017

Good, they should be forced to collect the same sales tax as local stores to make it fair competition.

Online stores are already at an advantage with not having the overhead costs that come with having a brick and mortar location, allowing online stores to offer lower prices. Pair up lower overhead with no sales tax and its going to be more and more difficult for local stores to compete. I like the convenience of online shopping for certain things, but also don't want to see local stores going out of business because they couldn't compete on a fair level with the internet retailers.