Via Glenn Reynolds, it’s time for another round of Elections have Consequences!
Action: The North Carolinan legislature (run by Democrats) is about to provide legislation to the governor of North Carolina (Democrat) that allows North Carolina to collect sales tax from Internet transactions.
Reaction: Amazon has closed its Amazon Associates program to North Carolina residents.
To all North Carolinan bloggers and website owners out there – particularly the ones who helped to make sure that North Carolina kept its Democratic majority on the state level – my sincere sympathies; but I must note that this is what happens when you elect too many Democrats.
So stop doing that.
Moe Lane
PS: And before you think I’m being smug: I’m in a state (Maryland) dominated by the Democratic party myself. I’m pretty sure that they voted something like this down, but I trust them with fiscal policy about as far as I can throw them – and I can’t throw worth a darn.
So if you feel the need to buy something, well… here’s the site.
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
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Maryland - Depends on where in the state.
naraht Friday, June 26th at 1:12PM EST (link)Depends on where you are in the state as to just how dominated. Living in Western Maryland with Republicans representing you in both houses of the Legislature and in Congress feels slightly different than living in the People’s Republic of Takoma Park or elsewhere in Montgomery County (For non marylanders, that’s the county just north of DC. As best as I can tell, for most if not all of Montgomery County, there are *no* elected Republicans representing them at *any* level above the city.
Montgomery County
NRPax (Diary) Friday, June 26th at 1:59PM EST (link)I live there and we have Roscoe Bartlett as our Representative. Must be odd for him to be the lone voice of reason.
MoCo & 6th District...
naraht Monday, June 29th at 1:03AM EST (link)I forgot that the 6th only goes slightly into Montgomery County.
Frankly the Democrats didn’t expect Bartlett to be alone. The redistricting in 2000 was designed to take MD from being a 4-4 state by part to a 6-2 state. They crammed as many Republicans as they could into Districts 6 & 1.
For the 1st district, I think the Dems expected Gilcrist to be there for many years, and while Kratovil got some support before the primary, they didn’t expect much more from him than they got from Corvin from 2006.
MoCo & 6th District...
naraht Monday, June 29th at 1:03AM EST (link)I forgot that the 6th only goes slightly into Montgomery County.
Frankly the Democrats didn’t expect Bartlett to be alone. The redistricting in 2000 was designed to take MD from being a 4-4 state by part to a 6-2 state. They crammed as many Republicans as they could into Districts 6 & 1.
For the 1st district, I think the Dems expected Gilcrist to be there for many years, and while Kratovil got some support before the primary, they didn’t expect much more from him than they got from Corvin from 2006.
Montgomery County
NRPax (Diary) Friday, June 26th at 1:59PM EST (link)I live there and we have Roscoe Bartlett as our Representative. Must be odd for him to be the lone voice of reason.
Amazon already collects taxes in NY
nyindy Friday, June 26th at 1:33PM EST (link)Amazon caused an initial stink when NY started requiring that they collect sales taxes, but in the end Amazon caved in.
Guess Amazon wasn’t willing to lose all the NY affiliates but they’re willing to shut out NC.
“When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.” -Thucydides
Our state is facing dire monetary problems
tarheels23 Friday, June 26th at 6:50PM EST (link)(liberal poster)
Everyone on both sides is getting whacked. I didn’t vote for Perdue, but she inherited a big miss and we’re getting killed by the economy as a whole.
There have been major cuts and that still isn’t nearly enough, so they have to find a way to increase revenues as well. Dept is not an option (per the state constitution), so her hands are tied.
This story explains how state Dems are trying to make the numbers work via large (and painful) cuts, but ultimately they also have to raise taxes.
http://www.newsobserver.com/politics/story/1554795.html