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As well. what you would do is you would tax things that are currently not being taxed by the state, such as certain legal fees, accounting fees, spa services, and food. ultimately what would you get out of it? >> well, you have to look at some serious points. consumption-based sales and use tax very broad based on both goods and service efs is s is a very good economic driver as compared to the negative effect of income taxes which is a detriment to economic growth and jobs. what we believe is to expand the sales tax basin to goods and services, that is something that would absolutely create b...

Flowers. a couple billion dollars spent on that. apparel, accessories, jewelry sales are up as well. which is a positive sign for the economy. $3 billion on jewelry. $1.6 billion on gift cards. and then another $1.2 billion on other things such as spa services, personal services falls into that category. spas and whatnot. >> the thing i find surprising, tricks. you don't think about mom as being active in tricks. >> they're becoming much more tech savvy. more people are buying their mom tricks, e-readers, digital cameras. only 9% of us last year were going to buy mom electronics. this year it'...

That. will that have an uptick this season? >> 127 on average is what we are expected on average which 124 last week. >> billion? >> yes. $438 billion for the christmas. $15 billion for mother's day. $127. >> a person? >> per person. >> just to get that clear. >> lot of money on flowers and $2 billion on flowers. $3 billion on bun brunches, spa services, gift cards. >> what about the merger between con tin enal airlines? >> probably will happen. when that does happen, expect to be announced monday, that would make it the biggs airline, even bigger than del stay, which is surprising. when airli...