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On the recordOctober 7, 1998
The answer is no, that the discrimination is the fact, that currently the local Main Street merchant is required to collect the tax, but the distant remote Internet seller is not, and we are about to make that a 4-year institutionalized--
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

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Discussing tax collection disparities between local merchants and online sellers.

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