Dale Bumpers: “How would you like to be Debbie White? She also sells wallpaper. How would you like to be Debbie White, paying State…”

“How would you like to be Debbie White? She also sells wallpaper. How would you like to be Debbie White, paying State sales taxes, privilege taxes, every tax under the shining sun the State can impose on you, working just to keep your head above water, and have somebody walk in and take your time for an hour looking through wallcoverings, and they walk out saying nothing, and suddenly you realize that they saw this ad that said: ``Shop in your neighborhood, write down the pattern number, and then call us.'' Who here thinks that is fair? Or here, a boat company. I put a letter in the Record last night where a woman and her husband in the boat business in California spent all kinds of time and thousands of dollars trying to make a $250,000 boat sale. After spending all that money and time trying to sell this boat, the customer says, ``Thank you very much for your time, but we have just discovered we can go to Oregon and buy this boat and keep it out of the State of California for some prescribed period of time and bring it here and save ourselves $19,000.'' And here, what does this boat company's ad say? ``No sales tax added outside of North Carolina.'' Who here thinks this is fair? Not one. Not one.”