I see that Hot Air is reporting on at least the first half of this – essentially, that Chris Christie has come out in support of the Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA), a law that would set up federal guidelines for collecting sales tax online – but based on the comments there I’m not sure if enough folks really understand the situation here wrt Amazon.com. It boils down to this: contrary to popular belief, Amazon.com does not oppose the MFA. It in fact supports it. This is ostensibly because the MFA promises to standardize sales tax collection methods… but it’s mostly because Amazon.com’s business model actually is largely reliant on third-party vendors. Continue reading #rsrh Chris Christie joins Amazon.com in supporting the Marketplace Fairness Act.