Quote Originally Posted by slapshot View Post
Since you felt compelled to fire the first shot over my bow, here we go: Cearly you're incapable of logical reasoning.

Answer the question?

Here's another question for you - Why should the local merchant be forced to compensate in some way for the Government unfairly taxing one entity, but not another? If you can't see that as unfair, then you have a distorted sense of equity and fairness. Not talking about the market place determining who survives based on product and services offered, I'm talking about an imbalance in the market that results because of inequities in Government regulations.

After all, wasn't it posters like you that constantly whined about Government TARP money giving an unfair advantage to failing companies like GM? That's hypocritical.

You're response to the local merchant is: You need to change, or make compensations..or find a new line of business. Wow. Differences in the market place are one thing, but when the Government tilts the playing field to the advantage of one sector over another, then in my book, that's wrong. The Government should have no business in helping to determine winners and losers.

Some Republican you are? Really, turn in your card.
You're complaining about unfair playing fields? I have news for you - there are a lot of things in business that are unfair. Taxes and regulations vary between states too - is that unfair?

The fact is that the tire dealer business you are using as an example is not a skewed playing field. The dealer you referred to that is going out of business is just as free to sell tires over the Internet as larger merchants are. If he is unable to do so because of inadequate capital or inadequate technical expertise, is that the fault of larger and more innovative merchants like Tire Rack?