Earlier this week, Linda Campanella, a resident of Yatesville, Texas, expressed her opinion about the so-called Marketplace Fairness Act pending in Congress in an editorial published in The Dallas Post. In her editorial, Campanella explained that the concept of creating “fairness” between online and traditional brick-and-mortar retailers is really just a façade. Campanella highlighted that many traditional brick-and-mortar stores actually have several advantages over purely online retailers, including ease of returns and the ability to test the product before purchase.

Campanella argues that it is not the role of government to guarantee fairness and that in many ways we wouldn’t want the government to institute laws that require fairness. “It’s not the government’s place to try to make all businesses “equal.” Every business owner is free to use the tools at hand or to invent new ones in order to capture more of the market than his competitor,” said Campanella. “Since when do we penalize entrepreneurs for creating a new way to do business? Whether it be drive-through dry cleaning or online shopping, every new idea cuts into somebody’s business. The struggle to stay on top is what keeps retailers striving for excellence.”

Read Campanella’s editorial in The Dallas Post or learn more information on eBay Inc.’s position on Internet sales taxes.