Congress should pass online sales tax bill

[Commentary] It's been nine years since Congress first took up online shopping's unfair sales tax advantage over brick and mortar retailers. But House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) says more debate is needed before Congress can set rules for states to collect sales tax on Internet purchases. Say what? Nine years isn't enough to deal with what in 2005 we called the most widespread form of tax evasion in America? And we thought the Senate was supposed to be the deliberative body.

But the Senate in 2013 passed bipartisan legislation setting uniform rules for collecting the tax to put online markets on a level playing field with Main Street stores. The House needs to pass this legislation before it leaves for its five-week summer recess at the end of July.