Posted on 03/02/2011 2:29:55 PM PST by Nachum
Amazon.com has threatened to cut off more than 10,000 affiliates in California if state lawmakers pass legislation requiring the Internet retailer to collect sales tax from state residents. Seattle-based Amazon said four bills introduced in the state legislature are unconstitutional because they would require sellers with no physical presence in California to collect sales tax from its residents (Snip) "In no uncertain terms, Amazon has made it clear to me that the checks they send Californians will be cut off overnight if pending legislation aimed at regulating their operations becomes law."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.cnet.com ...
What needs to happen: All businesses that do business in or with California need to tell California where they can go. If enough companies reject California (both the government, and the citizens), then SOMETHING would have to break. Of course, with GM being owned by the Feds... they wouldn’t go along. But other automakers should give them the finger. The utility companies that sell energy to California should turn of the switches/spigots. Amazon and others just say no to selling to anyone in California.
Would certainly be a huge financial hit for many (at least in the short-term). On the other hand - automakers could tell California to stick their emissions insanity.
No more warnings on boxes of handgun ammo that read “this product contains lead, a substance known in the state of California to cause birth defects and even death”...
I cannot understand why anyone would live in a state where so many things are selectively toxic... [/sarcasm]
All California needs to do is pass a law that says if you buy something out of state over the internet, you need to then send the sales tax to the state.
Oh, they already did that. So what’s the problem.
Got any coconut oil?
:)
An economic collapse, if of major, major proportions could well precipitate a revolution.
“I cannot understand why anyone would live in a state where so many things are selectively toxic.”
I still don’t get how California gets paranoid about every little thing that might be even remotely toxic...and then they mandate that aluminum fluoride and sodium fluoride be dumped into drinking water. They’re even entertaining a law to require that bottled water sold in the state be fluoridated because some people, like my family used to when we lived there, used bottled water as a safer alternative to Alzheimer’s inducing public tap water.
How’s that working out for you? I guess you don’t use Google or PayPal, or Apple or Adobe products. And since most routers and network hardware are made by Cisco, I guess you’re not on the internet much. And of course, since Free Republic’s founder and servers are in California, you don’t post to Free Republic...
Me too...
I love the free shipping and no tax. Right now I'm a big fan of a few old black and white tv series.
10,000 people who have not yet figured it out that it is not the best thing to live in Kalifornia will all of the sudden figure it out that living in Kalifornia is not the best thing to do.
(sigh). “try to”...... BTW what CISCO factory
in CA actually “makes” routers? China? Mexico?
Talking about produced goods, etc. where I have
options to buy elsewhere. Of course there are exceptions.
Hence “try”. Bleh
California asserts that its "sales tax" is in fact a "use tax" due at the point of sale. That makes it a tax on property. So it matters not to the State where the transaction occurs, but focuses instead upon the location to which the product is shipped for final use.
These morons are not in short supply and more are being indoctrinated daily. It takes a lot of indoctrination to take somone’s natural common sense and beat it into socialist submission to where the truth can be rationalized away with ease. It becomes like breathing for them. Everything goes through the liberal filter and no new information can get in that doesn’t bolster their preconceived beliefs.
We’ve got to break government schools if this is ever going to change. It won’t stop liberalism but it will make their job of brainwashing that much harder. The coming death of the MSM as internet bloggers replace them, is a huge benefit as well.
Michael Moore will sit on Amazon’s CEO if they do this. Then he will beat him with his tiny pudgy hands and say “You beast! You greedy bastard!”
Amazon Is Ditching "Pro-Business" Texas Because Of A Fight Over Taxes
http://www.businessinsider.com/texas-amazon-location-2011-2
All businesses that do business in or with California need to tell California where they can go.
the only way to stop these parasites is either a total economic collapse or another Revolution. Nothing else will likely stop them.
Sounds like 10,000 more people will be leaving the wonderful state of Kalifornia.
Amazon Is Ditching "Pro-Business" Texas Because Of A Fight Over Taxes
http://www.businessinsider.com/texas-amazon-location-2011-2
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