States looking to grab sales tax from websites like Amazon, are seeing those e-retailers cut ties with business partners in said state, and now Rhode Island joins North Carolina as losing out on business (and advertising) with Amazon.  Get the story at news.wbru.com. 

States really think they'll collect on these taxes, but the e-retailers end up cutting ties with business partners (including advertising on the locally-run websites), and then everyone loses out.  Make no mistake, when a state does this, they're effectively killing businesses based in their state.

Check out my scoop on how Ken Rockwell is trying to stop California from doing the same thing.

Posted at 01:48PM Jun 30, 2009 by Heath McKnight in Inform  |  Comments[0]