Sales tax bite looms for Internet consumers

There’s nothing new about ordering merchandise from the comfort of one’s home and having it delivered to the doorstep.
Generations of Americans—especially those living in isolation on farms and ranches—pored over the inches-thick catalogs that Sears and Roebuck, Montgomery Ward and other retailing behemoths issued each year.
During their heydays in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mail-order firms offered almost every necessity and luxury, even prefabricated houses