If you don't have a sales tax in New Hampshire or in Alaska, this bill will not impose one penny of sales tax obligation on any resident of New Hampshire, Alaska, Oregon, or any other state without a sales tax.
Dick Durbin: “If you don't have a sales tax in New Hampshire or in Alaska, this bill will not impose one penny of sales tax obligation…”
On the recordJuly 31, 2012
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Durbin explains that the bill won't affect states without sales tax.
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