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...

What are you - American taxpayer - getting from the "bailout'?

"The federal government has committed $2 trillion in financial help to Citibank, AIG, General Motors, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and other large corporations and financial institutions. Now, the same thing is happening locally. Prominent businesses are seeking — and in some cases getting — cash, tax forgiveness, loans, loan guarantees and other types of aid to help survive the recession."

And part two of this particular scam:

"The developer wants the City Council to increase his property tax exemption on the homes from 50% to 100%. The change will reduce taxes by an additional $2.2 million over 15 years. Mayor John Brennan supports the deal: "Any time someone wants to invest $38 million in our city, I'll bail them out," he says."

I wonder how many tax dollars he got last year???

So you, Joe and Jane taxpayer, can just figure out some way to reduce YOUR spending and try to hang on to YOUR home. You as an individual are NOT important to your government except at tax time. We are NOW more concerned about "creating jobs" for the masses - than doing anything to help you with YOUR little problems...

This is such crap, nothing short of fraud, AND criminal.

Once you give businesses money - a lot of it - for screwing up - they become addicted. The trickle-down to lesser greedy business entities is in full swing. They will bring this country to a state worse than 1929 before they are finished - and the wealthy few will get even richer for it.

This is beyond politics - which is the haze the government and media cast over everything. What politics has to do with it is that the Bush administration got away with scamming the country for 8 years with no penalties paid for doing so. The word "illegal" in the country now means nothing.

This is a cold war against the American taxpayer.

Stupidity - too many choices...

There haven't been any posts to this blog for awhile. The choices of topics that showed clear stupidity by politicians and government is just overwhelming How to choose one above all others for a day or week?

Let's just view a picture instead:

Taxpayers, YOU are the spider.....

Taxing smokers to death...

If the tobacco and chemicals added by the manufacturer don't kill you, paying ridiculous taxes for the benefit of other people's children, will. If you are a single taxpayer, this is just more of the same.

This is a punitive tax on a targeted group. Manufacturers raised their prices nearly two months ago to cover any potential decrease in sales due to the new tax.

I'd like to see them try this with milk...

U.S. - with firms - to buy 'bad' assets

"WASHINGTON (CNNMoney.com) -- The Obama administration on Monday will formally unveil a program to help banks clean up their books by subsidizing private investors' purchase of troubled assets."

Subsidizing private investor's purchases...

"Under the new Public Private Investment Program

(What is a "Public Private Investment Program?" It's either "Public" or Private", right?),

taxpayer funds will be used to seed partnerships with private firms to buy up assets backed by mortgages and other loans."

Using taxpayer dollars...

So when you write that check in April or look at how much money you've paid in to the government this year out of your income, know that what is not already used to support illegal immigrants, is being used to prop up wealthy real estate investors.

This starts off a work week on a useless note. Maybe by the time I get to Thursday, I will be working for me - not illegals, and not wealthy, greedy, ignorant investors.