Awh!! The libs are fighting among themselves! What’s the matter? They don’t like paying ‘their fair share’?
Rats NEVER think that there could be a negative reaction to their actions.
“This is a significant hit on our revenues and our profits,” said Loren Bendele, chief executive of the company, which has 80 employees. Bendele said the action would cost the company 15% to 20% of its business, and probably require him to lay off workers.
ARE YOU LISTENING BROWN/OBAMA?!?!
Way to go minimizing the problem there, LA Times. The number of affiliates affected has been widely reported to be 25,000 rather than 10,000.
I wonder how many of those Amazon partners are just one desktop computer heavy and can setup outside California with an apartment and a DSL connection.
People are tired of paying for entitlements. Soon SS will be gone. Then what will the old folks do?
They will have to go to work like the rest of us. Or create their own job/business.
I don’t want to be perceived as anti-Amazon. I shop with them far more than I do any brick or mortor.
But if the sales tax code in Cal requires collection of sales tax on internet purchases...is this out of line? (I guess I could look it up, but I don’t have the time or inclination.)
They are not fighting it. They are simply going to stop doing what the state has decided to tax.
I would guarantee by these small buisnesses losing access to Amazon that they will be laying their employees off because of the hit they will take from it.Dumb dumb move on the states part!
Wow! More cars on the road polluting the environment with drivers wasting gasoline and time.
“I don’t think they’re (Amazon) a particularly good corporate citizen,” said Darnell, who like other affiliates was cut off by Amazon. “We all live in the system and contribute to the state...”
Exactly, Mr Artiste. Keep bowing to the state. And Amazon is trying to save their millions of customers from paying up to 10% more on purchases. To do it, because of this twisted double-taxation law, they had to cut off a relatively tiny percentage of affiliates, most of whom will not be severely impacted.
Amazon had a choice: screw our customers or screw the government. I think they made the right choice and a gutsy one.
Technically how can CA make Amazon collect the taxes? What’s the state gonna do, shut down the internet? I guess it could confiscate Amazon shipments once they crossed a border into the state. But then Amazon could counter by shipping stuff in “plain brown wrappers”.
Way to go, Jerry!
The stupidity of democrats never ceases to amaze.
I was reading today that in the first half of 2011, the number of reporting businesses leaving California is up to 5.6 per week. Importantly, only 1 in 5 of such businesses are required to report leaving the State. This would mean that of businesses with 100 or more employees, about 20-25 are leaving the State every week.
That’s a huge hemorrhage. To make things even worse, competing States are sending consultants to California businesses, advising them that on average, for them to leave the State could reduce their tax bill anywhere from 20-40%. That is a nearly irresistible argument, especially in a recession-depression.
Pretty sure Amazon told them they would do this.
Good for amazon.
Good for Amazon. The automobile manufacturers should have done this years ago. Instead of choking cars down with useless California Emissions BS, they should have stopped selling cars in California.
CA Berlin wall ping!
Umm, or, you could relocate to a civilized state.
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They failed to see the writing on the wall.