Yes I do. Amazon is fleeing from places that want to levy sales taxes against their business, even if it means hanging some of their affiliates out to dry or abandoning their own distribution centers. Eventually, they will run out of states that won't try to tax them. Then, where will they go?
Have you ever seen a thing called a "globe"?
You obviously do not understand then. They aren’t “fleeing” anywhere.
They are in Washington State. They will stay in Washington State. People will continue to shop at their website in Washington State even from Illinois.
What they are doing is ending their Affiliate Program with people who reside in Illinois.
Let’s create an Amazon Affiliate and see what is happening.
Let’s say Illinois resident Linda (signed up for the Affiliate program) ran a small blog about making curtains by hand, and she had a link on her site that would take a visitor to a book on curtain making on Amazon.com
Let’s say Mary, reading about curtain making, was interested in the book that Linda talked about, so she clicked on the link and bought the book from Amazon.
Amazon, noting the session started from Linda’s blog, sends Linda some money for linking to their site. If the book was, let’s say $15, the money Linda would get would be between $.60 and $1.27 depending on how far up the “ladder” Linda was.
So, the current law in Illinois says that Amazon has to collect sales tax on that sale, since it originated in Illinois with Linda’s website.
Amazon can still be open for business in Illinois, but they have decided that it is too much trouble to keep Linda, and thousands others like her, on as affiliates.
Illinois didn’t hurt Amazon at all. But they just ended a nice way for Illinois residence to make a little money on the side.
So instead of increasing tax revenue, this will be a revenue remover.
the tax is unfair as is most tax.