States Look To Internet Taxes To Close Budget Gaps

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Sun, 06/19/2011 - 6:05am

State governments across the country are laying off teachers, closing public libraries and parks, and reducing health care services, but there is one place they could get $23 billion if they could only agree how to do it: Internet retailers such as Amazon.com.

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