“Amazon seems focused on making sure that no court case gets filed on this matter. That’s not the position of a company that is sure it would win on the merits.”
I think you’re confused by their action. Amazon makes lots of money world-wide. Court cases are expensive and a crap shoot. They don’t need the business of folks in the State of Illinois, which is puny compared to its world-wide take. So Amazon, in essence, is telling Illinois to f-— off.
As for Illinois’s law being upheld by the SCOTUS, there would be no surer way to destroy internet commerce than for all other states to try to do the same thing Illinois’s attempting to do to Amazon. Because next will be L.L.Bean, Land’s End, Starbucks Coffee, etc.
We should all be encouraging the expansion of business, not using taxes to strangle any growth.
This isn’t new taxes, nor is it a tax on Amazon.