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Imperial Revenuers

Jesse Walker | 12.21.2006 8:55 AM

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West Virginia takes an innovative approach to raising revenue: taxing businesses in other states.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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