On 3/12/2010 1:33 PM, steve harley wrote:
On 2010-03-12 10:48 , P. J. Alling wrote:
On 3/12/2010 12:29 PM, steve harley wrote:
On 2010-03-12 10:11 , P. J. Alling wrote:
[...] But hell who pays
attention to that musty old document these days.
well, since the focus in the law is on whether Amazon (or whichever
other corpse) does or does not have a business presence in the state,
it seems obvious the crafters of this law had the constitution in
mind [...]
Perhaps, but the affiliate is the one responsible for paying and
reporting the Tax not Amazon. The state is requiring Amazon, an actor
with no "real" presence under the states jurisdiction, to take
responsibility for an entity that's nothing more than a sub contractor.
The upshot is now the State will lose even indirect revenue from these
transaction, since no transactions will take place.
my point was only that it's not really a lack of attention to the
constitution -- the legislators tried to come up with something
constitutional, but many people seem to disagree; whether it was a
good move is another question, but the petit-mob reaction is to
conflate all these issues
personally, whatever the outcome of this case, now is the watershed
time for resolving the "tax-free" status of internet sales in the US
Amazon chose a strategy which recruited a bunch of essentially selfish
people to its cause; i don't think the crux for most of them is
whether it's constitutional, they will latch onto any argument that
gets them more money
i live in Colorado, by the way
You're not getting it. The mechinism to collect these taxes is
dependent on a actor not within their jurisdiction. They couldn't
enforce this law and Amazon to avoid /any/ problems have made sure that
these transactions cannot take place. Killing commerce has never been a
way to insure prosperity. This hurts Colorado a lot more than it hurts
Amazon. I don't even know how to answer the your "selfish" charge. I
doubt that 90% of the affiliates made enough from Amazon to pay their
web hosting costs. The internet gold mine just isn't there.
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