Fortunately for consumers, Amazon won't be collecting Sales Taxes anytime soon, and they should be applauded for refusing to be "Tax collectors" for the State.... I was reading an article where Exxon Mobile employs over 20,000 employees and occupies 4 entire floors of a office building that primarily handles the bookkeeping for taxes paid at the pump, Disbursing Millions of dollars to Federal, State and Local levels, It must be nice for Government to sit on their ass and collect all that money for doing absolutely NOTHING, dont you think?... This is exactly what they want Amazon and Overstock to do, collect taxes that their not able to collect themselves, Which the State is also NOT entitled to under Article I, Section 10 of the Constitution, which forbids any state to tax imports from other states.
Members who are California residents like CompanyOne, myself and some others, are familiar with Prop. 25 that was recently passed, It was a proposition that gave the legislature the power to pass a budget with a simple majority, and since Democrats control both the State Assembly and Senate, this was quite easy to do here, Democrats included the Amazon/Overstock tax as part of the budget, this was a budget that needed to be passed so legislators could get paid, And they did it against Republican opposition. Who was the biggest proponent of Prop. 25? Public Employee Unions.... And they used lies and deception to pull it off, So if your a Amazon affiliate who got canned or if your a shopper who's opposed to paying a sales tax, blame the ignorant assholes of this State who voted for it AND blame the Politicians and Unions who made it all happen.
California is the hole for $26 BILLION dollars mostly due to the cost of public employee pensions and other entitlement spending that have long been a drain on the State, Calpers alone pays out pensions of $100,000 or more a year, to more than 9,000 retirees and many are in their early to mid 50's.. NOT a shred of Pension reform was included in this budget, instead of addressing the underlying problem and reforming it, Democrats continue to dream up more ways to TAX and increase revenues, even it means driving businesses out of State, They DON"T care, their career politicians who are bought and paid for by the Unions and reforming anything associated with the Unions is NOT an option.
Sorry for the rant, I'm just sick and tired of us carrying a bigger burden of taxes while public employees live their comfortable and lavish lifestyles, it really pisses me off!
