Amazon.com: A $900 Million Corporate Bully

Amazon has made a corporate decision that the best method of getting what they want is to fire hard working Colorado affiliates (businesses, organizations, and individuals that route sales to Amazon's website), and what they want is an unfair advantage over hard-working, honest "brick and mortar" businesses in Colorado. Like a child throwing a tantrum, Amazon is simply upset over having to participate in a new bill that would require them to help the state of Colorado collect use taxes on internet purchases made through their site, a practice many other companies already participate in. While Amazon claims this new legislation is what has cost these affiliates their ties with Amazon, the fact remains that the bill left affiliates completely untouched so as not to risk harming their business. How ironic, then, that Amazon has decided to take this drastic measure, all for a pathetic attempt at political arm-twisting and corporate greed.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• amazon
• amazon.com
• affiliates
• colorado affiliates
• colorado state senate
• john morse
• senator john morse
• senate majority leader
• corporate greed
• internet sales tax
• amazon kindle

[WeDontNeedGod]

JohnMorseSD11 - You thought you could use a law to take what you have not earned from those who have earned it. Amazon is showing you, you have no right. You need them, you said so yourself. The revenue the company creates for non-profits in your state, The machine you hold in your hand. Amazon does not need you. And I for one am glad they they are standing up to the tyranny and abuse you tried to level at them.

[dmbrickell]

I'm an Amazon Associate sickened by this whole fiasco, but Amazon is NOT to blame.

The Colorado government -- our legislators and governor -- created this mess by its imposition of an "Amazon Tax" with HB 1193. Given its Colorado-based affiliates, that law would have crippled Amazon with an onerous and expensive confusion of red tape, plus a crazy patchwork of local taxes. The only way for Amazon to extricate itself from that nightmare was to terminate the Affiliate Program.

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[LerdoBurgerPimp]

I will buy only from Amazon,

Stop wasting our money you jerks are taxing sugar now. You want to see tyranny look at your tax code buddy. You say we pass a bill, more you and your elitist cronies pass a slave tax on the good people of Colorado. We see through your money hungry antic stooge.

IF YOU DRIVE THEY WILL TAX THE STREET , IF YOU WALK THEY WILL TAX YOUR FEET.

The King or England felt the same way you do before WE THE PEOPLE, GAVE HIM THE BOOT. With luck you will be next pork bellyXD

[katrynem]

we already paid for those taxes when we first bought the product

[mbmart2005]

If our politicians paid a sales tax on the money they collected under the table for "selling themselves" to special interest groups and lobbyists we could pay off the national debt.

Go AMAZON KEEP FIGHTING!!!! DON'T GIVE UP!!!

[pf91rodman]

fuck sales tax

[royalorleanshk]

why don't you worry about getting your per diem scandal in order and stop interfering with businesses that CREATE JOBS and SAVE CONSUMERS MONEY?

[foreign96man]

Idiots shouldn't try doing smear campaigns.

Those affiliates won't get paid because of your stupidity.

[bwehde]

... in response to your bullying.

Or did you really think nobody had noticed?

I know it's too much to ask, but the next time you decide to gamble with peoples means of income, you should try starting with your own.

Say what you like about high minded theoretical nonsense and intentions, the bottom line is this:

You set off a chain of events that led to the demise of a significant opportunity for Coloradans to increase their revenue and funnel funds back into the state from remote markets...