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...shoppers: No new sales taxes. For now. Thrifty consumers who bought more than $183 billion worth of merchandise by mail last year welcomed last week's Supreme Court decision not to allow state taxation of out-of-state mail-order sales. But in rebuffing North Dakota's effort to collect a use tax from the Quill Corp. of Lincolnshire, Ill., the nation's largest mail-order office-product supplier, the high court punted the issue back to Congress and cleared the way for future legislative action authorizing states to impose use taxes on out-of-state consumers...
Cash-hungry state officials will lobby hard for new laws forcing mail-order companies to collect taxes from out-of-state customers; the state-government lobby claims that this would add $3 billion to their coffers this year. If permitted, California could have raked in $417.8 million in mail-order sales taxes last year alone. But this is a tough sell in an election year when jittery lawmakers get plenty of mail from catalog-shopping constituents. As Representative Byron Dorgan of North Dakota put it, "The large catalog companies have the ability -- and they've done it in the past...
...will gain an appreciation of the silly from which you may never recover. You may begin to collect windup toys at airports, catalogs of exotic nightwear, and unemployment ads for stun-gun salesmen...
...Earth Summit treaty would include a provision making genetic materials of all kinds the sovereign resource of the originating country. Nations would have control over who had access to their genetic resources, and if someone else found a way to make money from them, the originating country would collect royalties on each sale...
...Senate has voted overwhelmingly in favor of lifting the ban. But no one knows if the House will pass the measure with enough strength to override a sure veto from Bush. It is too close to call. Faced with that uncertainty, Bush last week proposed creating a bank to collect fetal tissue from ectopic pregnancies and spontaneous abortions for research. But researchers quickly responded that naturally aborted fetal cells are often damaged and thus unusable for therapy. Looking for some political leverage, Bush portrayed the vote as a loyalty test for Republicans...