Amazon Cuts North Carolina Affiliates to Avoid Tax

Is there a worse state to live in than perpetual confusion?

How about the State of North Carolina? Today, both are the same.

Amazon closed ALL associates programs for anyone located in North Carolina because the ignorant and desperate legislature wants to tax money that can't really be tracked in the first place.

So,

"In an e-mail Amazon sent early Friday morning to North Carolina affiliates, the company informed them that their accounts would be closed as of June 26. "This is a direct result of the unconstitutional tax collection scheme expected to be passed any day now by the North Carolina state legislature (the General Assembly) and signed by the governor," reads the message."

...with the stroke of a pen - or rather before, since Amazon acted on Friday, June 26th, many self-employed, independent business owners in the State of North Carolina, are out of business this morning, June 29th, 2009.

We can't go to the State for unemployment of course since most of us are self-employed. What better segment of the WORKING, income-tax-paying citizenry for the State to attack?

Living in North Carolina with it's over-indulgence of illegal immigrants was bad enough.

This is quite probably, enough to make many legitimate and legal businesses - take their tax money and run...to another State...