Syria internet sales tax and Social Security - Apr 29,2013

Antitax groups seem to be losing their influence, as Republican lawmakers' constituents support legislation that would require Internet retailers to collect sales taxes. Then, on Thursday, the White House told Congressional leaders that the nation's intelligence agencies had determined, “with varying degrees of confidence,” that Mr. Assad's government had used sarin, a chemical agent, on a small scale. President Obama said last summer that use of chemical weapons was a “red line” that, if crossed, could prompt the United States to intervene, but administration officials made clear that more conclusive evidence would be necessary before any action would be taken. “We never asked, nor did we encourage, the United States to take military action in Syria,” Mr. Steinitz said at a conference in New York sponsored by The Jerusalem Post. “And we are not making any comparison or linkage with Iran, which is a completely different matter.”

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