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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Miller)
Mon Dec 29 22:28:26 1997

Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 22:50:23 -0500
From: David Miller <dm0@avana.net>
To: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
Reply-To: David Miller <dm0@avana.net>

damaged justice wrote:
> 
>      [1]Microsoft Small Business [2]Business First [3]Kemper Insurance
>                                  Companies
>                            [4][ISMAP]-[5][USEMAP]
> 
>                                                       December 29, 1997
> 
>   Tech Watch
> 
> Groups line up in support for Internet commerce taxes
>        ______________________________________________________________
> 
>      John Frees
> 
>      Rumblings on the horizon suggest that tax-free Internet commerce
>      could be coming to an end.

"Dave -- if you can't figure something out, the answer's probably
money."

>      State governments, already losing as much as $3 billion annually in
>      taxes on direct-mail purchases, are taking a strong look at the
>      growing market for online purchases.

"Dave -- if you can't figure something out, the answer's probably
money."

>      The Federation of Tax Administrators, the National Conference of
>      State Legislatures, National League of Cities and the National
>      Governors' Association all want Congress to let states tax such
>      purchases.

"Dave -- if you can't figure something out, the answer's probably
money."

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Viva el Geiger,

--David Miller

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devil rim lad

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