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It may be true that online retailers will be required to collect sales tax before too long, but the sales tax issue is hardly online's biggest advantage. Customers don't shop online to save 7 percent in sales tax -- but for prices that are often 20-30 percent lower than the prices at Best Buy. And to avoid the obnoxious pitches for cell phones, extended warranties, and other products and services that are the only way Best Buy can even hope to make a buck. The future won't bring Best Buy a "...
It seems odd that a story headlined, "Does a business have to accept coins?" would totally fail to answer that question. I have no doubt it's true, as the writer suggests, that "If a merchant wants to sell her products in exchange for gold bullion, nothing but dimes minted before 1946, Swedish fish, or Monopoly money, that's her right under the law." But paying a debt that has been previously been incurred (such as the medical bill in dispute in this case) is a different matter. If I owe...