A friend who owns a local nursery says her mail-order business is hurting because of the new sales tax and use tax laws. She recently lost a big sale to a customer in Minnesota because she was charging sales tax on the purchase. The customer insisted that she could buy the same items from a Texas nursery without paying any tax. Is this true? Do we really have that sort of national patchwork quilt when it comes to sales tax? Will this affect your mail-order purchases? Will you be judging mail-order nurseries on the basis of the taxes they charge?