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States try to collect billions in unpaid online sales taxes
Virtually no one pays the taxes that are supposed to be levied on online purchases, yet the idea of all that uncollected revenue — one university study puts it at $11 billion this year — is frustrating a growing number of going-broke states.

Published Jan 30, 2011.
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MP3 available at www.symphonyofscience.com. “We Are All Connected” was made from sampling Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, The History Channel’s Universe series, Richard Feynman’s 1983 interviews, Neil deGrasse Tyson’s cosmic sermon, and Bill Nye’s Eyes of Nye Series, plus added visuals from The Elegant Universe (NOVA), Stephen Hawking’s Universe, Cosmos, the Powers of 10, and more. It is a tribute to great minds of science, intended to spread scientific knowledge and philosophy through the medium of music. Check out “A Glorious Dawn” by Carl Sagan, another Symphony of Science project! http And my website for more original music: www.colorpulsemusic.com Click HQ to watch in better quality. Enjoy! John john@symphonyofscience.com Lyrics [deGrasse Tyson] We are all connected; To each other, biologically To the earth, chemically To the rest of the universe atomically [Feynman] I think nature’s imagination Is so much greater than man’s She’s never going to let us relax [Sagan] We live in an in-between universe Where things change all right But according to patterns, rules, Or as we call them, laws of nature [Nye] I’m this guy standing on a planet Really I’m just a speck Compared with a star, the planet is just another speck To think about all of this To think about the vast emptiness of space There’s billions and billions of stars Billions and billions of specks [Sagan] The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it But the way those atoms are put together The cosmos is …