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Purchasing your products from, the targets, the grocery stores, all these things, they are not asking to see your driver's 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's dangerous. it's tax policy and very difficult. i think the republicans are getting put in a posi...

Try align. it's 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 don't 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 republicans didn't appropriate. personally, i have this vision of obama care is like a balloon in...

Issue red lines and don't 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 america's 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 to help him as well. it is really a tough situation now. if assad wins and united states is seen a...

>> paul: stevens thinks that i'm 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 that's 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 dan's point, the chinese are starting to threaten us militarily. they have been very aggressive in their pushes out to the south china sea against japan. in declaring the whole south china sea a core interest of china's. we...

>> paul: we're 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. it's still a very poor country. >> ours is what, 45 or 50 in. >> exactly. secondly, remember that china is highly unstable inside the country. more than 80,000 protests every year in china. that's just the official numbers. we have absolut...