Within the past year we provided a view of the future of buying and selling with a focus on issues that relate to today’s hearing: how advances in technology will change the role of place in where buyers and sellers are located. We gave this report the title, “Future Marketplace: Free and Fair” because that title reflects how technology and the sales tax are one force giving shape to the future of the marketplace.
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US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Japan’s Minister of Defense Shinjiro Koizumi inspect a guard of honor on October 29, 2025 in Tokyo, Japan. (Getty Images)