On-line shopping in California turns ugly

I'm posting this because it is making huge waves, Amazon already bailed, every U.S. State will be watching, and there will be an enormous rift created.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-amazon-tax-20110630,0,4344787.story

 

Amazon stopped all affiliate programs for people in California too.

 

It is very disappointing.

 

Yeah, the Amazon email was in my box this morning. Which is a drag, since I made about a thousand bucks a year off Amazon referrals from one of my sites.

All that aside, it's a stupid idea, collecting tax for Internet sales, and it only goes to show that politicians are puppets and idiots.

 

I need to hire you as a Coach...Last year I made $000.00 with my Amazon Affiliate account.

 

Both you guys are weak. Last year I made 000,000,000,000.00 Without even having an Amazon account.

 

Here in DC Metro, we deal in trillions with a T.

a la $x.xxE12, or 'teradollars'

And, BTW, it's not even ours.

 

This is the "just" of the Amazon vs. California act:
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/amazon-306409-affiliate-california.html

All jokes aside we need to watch this very closely.

 

Same.

 

Governor Brown vetoed this poorly conceived idea, and Amazon sent me a "please come back now" email last week. Luckily I saved all my site files that had embedded Amazon links and I was back up and raking in the pennies in a few minutes.

 

woo hoo! But were any jobs "created"?

 

The job of penny raker?

I don't know. I'm sure the idea of taxing long-distance internet sales locally isn't gone forever. Someone will try to pass it again at some point. But for now it's a welcome veto.