The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows politicians to pick winners and losers, and to provide favors in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions and loopholes. It simplifies the code dramatically: 9% business flat tax, 9% personal flat tax, 9% sales tax. - Herman Cain Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt. - Bill Delahunt Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001. - Bill Delahunt I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year. - Michael F Easley As I said in my state of the state address, we can no longer rely on gaming and sales taxes to pay our way. Indian gaming next door in California is eroding our major industry in Neva...

Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write. - Nicholas Sparks I stared at them. Had that been their sales pitch? Look!We're really scary! Come be scary too! - Rachel Hawkins Things I've learned the hard way: #1) When you're making a door-to-door sales pitch, make sure your shorts aren't so short that your dick dangles out of them. - Jarod Kintz Marriages performed within,' read the sign next to the coffeehouse door, underneath in small letters a verse that combined warning with a sales pitch: 'When lawless lust hath conceived it bringeth forth sin. - Toni Morrison

A writer who has perfect writing skills and zero honesty is not an author but a sales person. - Sandra Chami Kassis Basically, you're selling a world as an actor, right? I mean it's like any sales person: if you believe in your product, you know your product, you sell it a lot better. - Paul Walker