Comments on: Amazon.com Fires Colorado Affiliates Thanks to Affiliate Tax

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:38:10 +0000

@npcomplete “I saw this stat recently that said something like 45 out of 50 states are having budget problems. The solution is always â€œwe need more taxesâ€. In very few cases does anybody suggest that â€œthe government needs to spend lessâ€ (too radical of a concept).”

here’s another radical concept. why dont people start asking why we need government at all?

http://advisoronline.blogspot.com/2009/12/what-government-really-means.html

By: John

John — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:15:51 +0000

I totally understand the states wanting to get the tax revenue, but that needs to be dealt with on the national level. Seems like a gray area now, like Amazon has to collect the taxes, but they don’t and almost every other online only biz doesn’t either.

Of course companies with brick and mortars in a state DO already collect sales tax on their online biz in those states.

I feel bad for the small affiliates, they have no options. The larger ones can at least setup a corporation or something in another state. A pain for sure, but in the end may be the only way to deal with it. At least until THAT state decides to cut their own throat and enact the same silly policy.

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By: npcomplete

npcomplete — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:14:19 +0000

I saw this stat recently that said something like 45 out of 50 states are having budget problems. The solution is always “we need more taxes”. In very few cases does anybody suggest that “the government needs to spend less” (too radical of a concept).

This will only get worse wrt affiliates (and every other source of income) as the states scramble to avoid the obvious (cut spending).

By: GhettoCaveMan

GhettoCaveMan — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:28:46 +0000

There is NO leadership in Colorado right now.

They are all currently positioning themselves on either side of Amendment 20(Medical Cannabis).

Senator Chris Romer, son of a former governor, is trying to make “his name” on the issue.

Until medicinal cannabis is out of the news, I’m afraid many more things will get “pushed through the cracks”.

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By: JM

JM — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:22:11 +0000

Failed State!

USA is history – seems your gov just keeps wanting to run you all into the ground…very sad…