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To: Steve Felix who wrote (615)	1/6/2003 11:15:57 PM
From: Jon Tara	Respond to of 666

Can you imagine putting supermarkets out of business? What you are suggesting makes no sense. Would you allow businesses to at least deduct the cost of goods sold? Or do you mean to impose essentially a national sales tax? If that isn't what you meant, then how do you decide the cost of goods sold? Do you allow a deduction if another company is paid to build the goods? What about the cost of employees? Only those employees/hours that participate directly in producing good? What about services? Sounds impractical, and likely to produce huge and undesirable shifts in how/where money is spent.