Short on goods
Regarding "Lawmakers trying to tame Amazon in fight for online sales tax" (front page, Feb. 10): Yes, I buy from stores online, including Amazon. Not because of the sales tax, but because items I want to buy are not available from brick-and-mortar stores in Florida. I can't even find the simple hardware I need here. If not for the Internet, I would be making a lot of trips back North to buy what I want or need for any of my projects.
Before moving to Florida, a friend told me: "You won't find everything you want there." He was right. That includes food. The bread we liked was available here when we arrived. Several years later the company dropped Florida as a service area. And so it goes.
Harold Whipps
Riverview
Louder than howitzers
We need a noise-level ordinance for Hillsborough County. If the county attorney can't write one the state attorney will enforce, then the board of county commissioners needs to fire the county attorney and hire outside counsel to write one.
My home in Brandon backs up to a main street, and the boom boxes literally shake my windows and drown out the sound on my TV. I have a well-insulated house with dual-pane windows, and still the noise is deafening.
This past week I was riding my Harley, and a car came up behind me. The boom boxes were so loud I had to pull off to the side and allow them to pass, as I could not stand the noise. I was in a 105mm howitzer unit, and the noise level was lower than these boom boxes when we fired the big guns — I kid you not.
Something has to be done. Shame on the county and the county attorney for allowing this situation to exist for more than three years.
This is one of the many reasons people have lost all faith in government and are so disgusted with politicians who refuse to act.
John Ryals
Brandon
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