Thursday, June 30, 2011

Amazon To Cut Off California Partners Over Sales Tax Law


If this is Governor Brown's new way to scoop up money, then he doesn't understand the new math - the really, really new napster math where cost is optional. He doesn't understand that his ruling means that one can still buy Amazon products without Amazon collecting the tax, but California will lose thousands of jobs when over 25,000 Amazon affiliates have to leave the state or go out of business. That's what this ruling achieves, in addition to sticking the state's consumers with extra cost for many products they buy all the time, and coaxing us to drive down to stores offering absolutely no added value and staffed with incorrectl­y trained workers. Yeah, that's a good use of oil and already frayed tempers.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

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