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Originally Posted by murraypaul
The people are meant to pay the tax at the moment, but they are choosing not to.
This would not be an extra tax, but a more effective way of collecting the current, unenforced, tax.
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By all indicators this will not be in any way whatsoever a more effective way of collecting any taxes for California.
Based on their past history of doing exactly what they say they are going to do, Amazon will go ahead and withdraw from California. Period.
This may result in a percentage og California affiliates going out of business if they can not make up the loss of traffic. That equates to less taxes, and possibly a burden of more unemployed using state resources.
California should have simply worked to enforce tax collection by the affiliates within its jurisdiction, but then hey the state didn't get broke overnight and it didn't get broke to the vast extent that it is because it was run by people with even rudimentary competence.