So smart of North Carolina. Now they won't get the money from taxing Amazon and they'll have to pay to defend against Amazon's lawyers.
And small-time associates like myself and many school organizations that have used the affiliate program to raise money for our schools and supplies have now lost this additional money to help students.
The News and Observer has more.
The click-through provision is intended to give the state justification to levy sales tax on sites such as Amazon.com, which has no physical presence in the state. The company says the plan violates the Commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution.The paper quotes one small businessman who says it's enough for him to move his business out of state. He says he was making $70,000 a year from it. Amazing. I wasn't making any sort of big bucks, but I did make enough every year for over 10 years to buy extra materials for my classes.
Great going, North Carolina legislators! All I can hope is that Amazon's brinkmanship induces the legislators to pull back and ax this provision from their proposed tax increases.
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This would be the "North Carolina Cutting Your Own Nose Off to Spite Your Face" Tax. You should send your brilliant legislators home.
Betsy - I'm in Massachusetts and I'm an Amazon Associates member as well. I get "paid" by Amazon in gift certificates and I use those to buy more books. At this point I have more books stacked up than I could possibly read in the next 3 months (including Shelby Foote's second volume from his masterpiece narrative on the Civil War). If there was a way for you to use my Massachusetts based account - I'd be more than happy to let the gift certificates go to you for use for school supplies.
Chris, that is so tremendously nice of you. Is there a way to use your gift certificate to buy a gift certificate and send it to my email - betsynewmark@gmail.com
But if you can't do that, I'm still touched by your offer.
That would be wonderful! I have several books on my wish list and a few DVDs but I haven't really prioritized them and might wait for the school year to start to figure out exactly where my need is. Also, as kids pick their research topics I look for books, some of them pick topics where it's hard to find resources and sometimes I can find books that I'm interested in reading and that can help them.
Thank you for your kind offer.
Oh Betsy, don't fret. I'll set up an account for you. No Problem!
Is betsynewmark@gmail.com the e-mail I should use?
Send me the link where I can sign up in my name for your benefit.
You're an angel. Yes, that's my email.
You can go here to buy a gift certificate.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/gc/order-email/ref=g_gc-dp_lp_email
Thanks so very much.
Betsy - no problem. Between now and the start of school I'll let you know what amounts Amazon has credited to me (you know how they work) and I'll use those gift certificates to "buy" Amazon gift certificates that you can use for whatever.
I'm so appreciative. I'll go "window shopping" at Amazon right now. Thank you so very much.
Betsy - do you have a amazon wish list set up???
Why yes, Ron, I do. Just search under Betsy Newmark and my birthday which is July 26.
Thanks so very much.
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