The Dumbest States In The Land

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Why states (and provinces) think it's a good idea to tax this is beyond me. They truly aren't gauging the growing anger against excessive taxes all that well.

California just got reinstated when its bill was defeated. I imagine Minnesota is next to get added to the list. Notice that the states on the list are run by Democrat governors.  North Carolina currently has a Republican but the previous incumbent was a Democrat as recent as this year. So their bill was likely initiated by Democrats.

I'll tell you what's gonna happen. The smart folks, I mean the really smart and motivated ones who make coin on the internet, will simply move their lap top over to the next state and register their affiliate program with that state. The end.

Like capital silently moves whenever investors feel our political masters are dipping a tad too much into our pockets, so will be the case with the internet. Worse in fact because it's a lot easier to move a lap top around. The segment of the economy is so highly fluid and mobile it makes using traditional coercive action like taxes look silly. Better to shut up and let the economy flow.

Alas, since I started this blog there's been talk that we would one day see politicians come around to doing this. It wasn't that hard to see coming. I mean, we have to keep revenues up in order to keep the enabling state going.

Anyway, good for Amazon. I get more out of Amazon than I do from some faceless, unelected bureaucrat with too much power to decide my destiny.

Meh.

Circle of life. Tax, overtax, rebellion. Rinse. Repeat.