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To: Paul Engel who wrote (76192)	10/20/1999 11:53:00 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 1570759

RE:"I see you have no better understanding of the RETAIL PC market than that clown communist Jackson !"... Don't go there Paul...you're out of your league...

To: Paul Engel who wrote (76192)	10/20/1999 4:15:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570759

Paul, or should I call you: "stupid gibbering fool", you stupid gibbering fool. You lost this retail argument before you started to speak and went downhill from there. If you doubt me then ask your local sales tax office. The industry is fighting a valiant rearguard action against sales tax authorities, and is going down in flames. In the past they could rely on the difficulty in finding out what was shipped to who. Now however, the sales tax authorities are making people implement computers to compute and submit their sales taxes(how do they make them? They give them a bigger fee for collecting and remitting the sales taxes and they get some data to trade with other states about who owes use taxes.) Once these mutual state deals are fully fully in place you will see all interstate commerce liable for sales taxes collected by the ship to state based on this collected data. That will cramp many online operations and shift the balance towards local touch feel stores. Of course in the long run manufacturers who have only an online presence will endure as long as they sell for a standard price to all. Bill