first, steve delbianco of a group called net choice, and joe crosby with the retail leaders association. mr. delbianco, what is your group, and what's its position when it comes to this internet sales tax. >> guest: net choice is a coalition of e-commerce companies and online platforms. if you had the authors of our constitution in here today, they'd have said they were really worried 225 years ago about the colonies erecting tariffs and trade barriers to protect their own businesses, so article i in the u.s. constitution says that the states can't regulate interstate commerce, only congress can. so our position, california has decided to get aggressive at determining who has presence in california, but that's in keeping with this constitutional provision. california is simply saying that if you have presence here through some interesting definitions, you've got to collect for california. so it really doesn't interfere with interstate commerce because they're considering any who has an affiliate this to already be a california company. >> host: so two things. name a group that's -- name

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