Letters

Two points

I just read your editorial regarding internet sales. Two points to add to this:

1. Let’s not forget that the internet enables rural merchants to expand their marketplace beyond their sparsely populated local market in a way not possible cost efficiently previously.

2. Let’s not forget that the internet enables the start-up of small businesses in rural areas, with fiber optic connection now possible, in home offices which was once not possible.

Both of the above mean an increase in revenue and in increase in small business, with a decrease in reliance on entitlement programs which co...