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Purchasing your products from, the targets, the grocery stores, all these things, they are not asking to see your drivers license. they are not obligated to collect sales tax on behalf of massachusetts and send it back to them. that is in fact what we are now asking online retailers to do instead. there is going to be a disparity in terms of what people are obligated to do. that is actually the big problem. >> paul: dan, what do you think about republicans doing the switch a radio? >> i think it...

Try align. its a probiotic that fortifies your digestive system with healthy bacteria 24/7. because your insides set the tone. stay in the groove with align. >> paul: time now for hits and misses of the week. dan, first to you. >> well, senate majority leader harry reid said this week that he agrees with max baucus that if we dont implement obama care probably it is going to be a train whether he can and the answer to why we can avoid the train wreck is spend a lot more money which he claims the...

Issue red lines and dont honor them tend not to be believed the next time, dan. >> yeah, the word is credibility. the big problem, paul, is that this president and the -- and americas credibility is eroding in that region. we have been having this conversation for a year. the window is closing the situation is getting worse. jihadis have joined the opposition as bret says hezbollah is coming down from lebanon to help assad. and, the iranians have been flying into syria with both arms and people ...

>> paul: stevens thinks that im so old, i remember the 70s when there was another bought of america hypo hypochondria, whatd that is rapid growth under ronald reagan. is that the ultimate cure here for our ultimate that lace? >> i think thats what we are seeing what obama trying to move to the middle with the tax compromise. we need to do much much much much more. just to dans point, the chinese are starting to threaten us militarily. they have been very aggressive in their pushes out to the sou...

>> paul: were back with dan heatinger joining the panel. editorial board member mary kissel. former editor of the "wall street journal" asia. you did follow china for many years. are americans overestimating chinese economic power? >> i think to a large degree yes, they are. you have to remember that the per capita income in china is still less than $7,000. its still a very poor country. >> ours is what, 45 or 50 in. >> exactly. secondly, remember that china is highly unstable inside the country...

Coming off defeats gun control and spending sequester and facing a tough battle on immigration reform. the president was asked during a press conference tuesday whether he still had the juice to get things done. >> maybe i should just pack up and go home. as mark twain said, rumors of my demise make me a little exaggerated at this point. right now things are pretty dysfunctional up on capitol hill. despite that im actually confident that there are a range of things that we are going to be able t...

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