They've regained a bit of respect from me, after letting themselves get bullied them out of supporting wikileaks.

Though I'm sure many here will chime in accusing Amazon of not making it's customers "pay their share," fully convinced that the government deserves someone else's money just because they buy something.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/......axes.ars

Colorado passed a similar law last year, and you still can't sign up as an Amazon affiliate if you live in Colorado.

Here's an interesting game theory examination of this, relating it to the classic game of chicken: http://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/2011/0......lection/

The Amazon tax is part of a tax package that together will result in a 75% tax increase for Illinois residents. This tax package has one major staunch supporter, Gov. Mitch Daniels. That's INDIANA Governer Mitch Daniels.

Found this at a site that was linked to in another thread earlier this evening:

http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=2990

"Amazon’s Arguments Against Collecting Sales Taxes Do Not Withstand Scrutiny"