Mr. de Blasio suggested that the boroughs outside Manhattan are getting hit harder because many of these businesses are owned by immigrants and it might be easier for the city to collect fines from them.

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But given the complexities associated with tracking and collecting taxes at the time of purchase (with different treatment for different states), it might be easier to simply build the tax hit into their prices and deal with it after the fact.

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But something might be missed, and anyway, it would be easier to just look at the entire mountain.

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It might be easier to just come home late at night and, you know, put, do a box of mac and cheese, you know?

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"They're incredibly organized and it's going to be a lot easier for us than it might have been if they had not taken the time that they have and spent the time showing us things, " Culbertson said.

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Unlike alcohol, bitcoin itself might not be considered a consumption good but it certainly makes it easier to acquire and sell certain consumption goods.

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You might imagine that it would be easier to call for a return to military strength and national greatness in the United States -- a superpower -- than in the United Kingdom -- a middle ranking power.

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