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...fundamentally unfair," said Gov. Mike Leavitt (R-Utah), the lead governor on the issue, "that Main Street retailers should be required to collect a sales tax while Internet and mail order vendors can sell the same goods and not be required to collect a sales...
...while they wait, mail order and Internet sales increase. No solution to the out-of-state tax issue could result in the collapse of the state and local sales taxes and therefore the services they support. The result could be higher property taxes and a federal system of sales tax, and that will mean, according to Leavitt, "a massive shift in power from the local government to Washington...
Shouldn't cybervendors and mail order companies pay the same as businesses on Main Street and the mall? This is one place where Congress doesn't need to play Santa. Marguerite Hoxie Sullivan is a fellow at the Institute of Politics. She served as a cabinet member for five years under New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman...
WASHINGTON: Now that Operation Desert Fox has the sky falling on Baghdad, it won't feel like victory to ordinary Iraqis. But although President Clinton says this trip was necessary in order for UN inspectors to be able to do their jobs, this may mean the end of ground-based reconaissance. In the end, the decision to launch missile strikes on Iraq is another big win for Saddam Hussein. "The strikes are tantamount to an acknowledgment of defeat from the U.S.," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. UNSCOM's on-the-ground effort at arms control through inspection...
...suddenly have preferential access to AOL's immense subscriber base. But Justice prosecutor David Boies has countered that the merger was a last resort for Netscape -- a direct consequence of the beating it took because of Microsoft's underhanded grab for market share. And regardless of the new world order, the image of one of the world's most brilliant businessmen pretending not to understand the simplest questions about his own company will be hard to dispel. A new playing field doesn't mean you didn't cheat...