[Mears]

The day that they go after ALL internet sales for state taxes is the day I will sit up and pay attention.

Many people buy expensive items,like computers,from the Internet. I'm sure state taxes aren't added. When they start going after Dell and IBM and Apple I will pay attention and not until then.

They hate smoking,they hate smokers,they want their money----it is as simple as that.

[SheLion]

They hate smoking,they hate smokers,they want their money----it is as simple as that.

You can read the desperation in the articles.

And how do they think they can get Master Card involved in this? If Master Card goes along with this, then they will have to stop payment on Internet porn and I don't know what else.

Anything the lawmakers don't like, and Master Card is going to stop payment on everything? I don't THINK so.

Sounds like another scare tactic to me.

[jimthewiz]

When they start going after Dell and IBM and Apple I will pay attention and not until then.

First they came for the Communists,
  and I didn’t speak up,
    because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
  and I didn’t speak up,
    because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
  and I didn’t speak up,
    because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
  and by that time there was no one
    left to speak up for me.

by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945