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To: i-node who wrote (89467)	1/3/2000 8:55:00 AM
From: Victor Lazlo	Respond to of 164684

Yes i was talking net. Remember "net profits," "net losses" ?? This is commonly used as a measure of a company's success, David. <gg> <<Why? Do you suspect people will quit buying online because they now have to pay sales tax? They're going to opt to get in the car and go to the store and pay the sales tax there instead? Sales tax is not an expense and doesn't affect the bottom-line except to the extent it causes prospective purchasers not to buy. So are you saying people will not buy?>> This are the same kinds of comments re the fundementals of Merk in the early 1990's when Hillary was trying to get her socialist health care plan going. Merk stock was trashed, even though the fundemetals had not changed at all. Victor