In my opinion, either the government treats everyone the same and doesn’t require retailers (both brick and mortar, and online) to collect the taxes owed (so that we all have to pay them at the end of the year when we file our taxes), or the government requires the taxes to be collected by all retailers. The government should not be treating individuals or businesses differently.

Much of the blame belongs to Republicans who readily acknowledge that tax extensions or increases are absolutely necessary to balance the budget, but who refuse to vote that way. And I understand that, too: if they did what they believed was right for California, they’d be crucified by “No Taxes” extremists, and even more extreme legislators would be elected in GOP districts.

I’m not mad at Amazon; it did exactly what it said it would do (consistently for more than two years). I’m upset with Sacramento, but I don’t really blame anyone for what happened here (okay, maybe Nancy Skinner). It’s a bad law, enacted because there’s a very real problem with sales-tax collection. The law won’t help solve the problem, and it will cost the state money (lost income taxes), but I understand why it was passed.

I lost 26% of my income on Wednesday, when California forced Amazon to terminate its advertising relationship with me.

This bill was enacted primarily to help fabricate a “balanced” budget, by falsely allocating $195 million in “expected revenue” to this law, even though everybody knows it won’t generate any new revenue.

I am a born and raised so-cal. 50 years of watching our beautiful State run into the ground by the complete morons in Sacramento. I am also a business owner whose business is thankfully thriving right now, and am now considering moving out of CA because of the regulatory and tax burdens. What a shame.

Until there is enough pain…nothing will happen. Have you looked at how your Assemblyman and Senator voted on the budget bill? Have you called them? Have you chewed them out? Have you threatened to have them recalled? THat and bad PR is the ONLY things they understand, because they are soley interested in one thing – re-election and their pockets.

The only time this bill passes in California is as part of a trailer bill to an emergency budget.

No one has sat around to wait, especially not for the courts. We know that the damage is done when we get terminated and by the time the courts overturn this it will be too late for our businesses. We are small business owners and employees who have used our time and money (mostly traveling to Sacramento) to fight this.

We haven’t said that collecting sales and use tax is unfair. We just think it is wrong to put the burden on our companies, especially since all that happens is our companies get hurt and no tax is collected.

Narcissism is the personality trait of egotism, vanity, conceit, or simple selfishness. Applied to a social group such as government, it is sometimes used to denote elitism or an indifference to the plight of others.

If you cannot help, at least do no harm.

Really? Where are your backbones? DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS. Call your legislators. Raise hell. You really going sit there and wait 5 years while this is worked out in courts? Start a lobbying group, pool your money and do something for crying out load. Write to your local paper and every blog you can get on. Call Brown’s office. Call your local Fox affiliate.

Doesn’t one of you have what it takes to stand up to the madness? Have you become so apathetic? It’s time to stop bending over every time these liberal sycophants feels like destroying our state.