I am an avid online shopper.  There aren’t enough hours in the day, and if I can save time by shopping online, I will.  I couldn’t get Christmas shopping completed if it weren’t for online shopping.  However, after just placing an order online today to Ann Taylor and seeing almost 15% of the order go to:

Sales Tax
Shipping and
Shipping TAX

I think I might have to seriously reconsider shopping online.

What the heck is shipping tax??  Good grief.  How many other ways can they find to squeeze blood out of a turnip??

Kills me the claim by the democrats back in 2003 when we attacked Iraq that the only reason we were doing it was for the oil!!  Now I’m WISHING we could benefit from that oil.  This is crazy.  And gas at $3.50 a gallon??  Don’t even get me started on how the gas companies are quick to raise prices 20 or 40 cents a gallon in one day because they are afraid of some sneeze by a sheik in the desert.  Yet when the sneeze turns out to be from a simple whiff of pepper and not some fatal disease, they don’t so quickly bring those prices back down!  It’s a royal rip off.  If there ever were an industry in the US to be federally regulated this is it.  It isn’t as if we could get by without oil…our health, safety and livelihood depend on it!