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Illinois: Racing to the Bottom

Illinois is getting quite a reputation for itself.

  • Illinois – Safe harbor for your dead-beat, cry-baby politicians.
  • Illinois – We’ll elect you…residency laws be damned!
  • Illinois – Taxing the Internet…keeping things “fair,” keeping you poor, keeping the state broke.

The Governor of Illinois, Pat Quinn (D) signed a law that requires Internet retailers like Amazon.com to collect the 6.25% Illinois sales tax on affiliate sellers in the state.

Quinn has stated that the law is necessary to put brick and mortar stores on “a level playing field” with online retailers.  In this logic, the persistent damage of Leftist thought is laid bare.  While a conversation could exist that online retailers on Cyber Street get an advantage by not having to worry about excess taxes, the answer is not to tax them – the answer is to lessen the tax burden on the brick and mortar storefronts on Main Street!

With this faulty taxation logic clearly permeating their brains, Democrats will never see the fruits of their law.  Amazon has already said it will terminate their Illinois affiliates (as they have said they will drop 10,000 California affiliates if a law passes there as well.)

Congratulations, Illinois.  In a horrific economic climate, you made making a living just that much harder.

Illinois – A Nice Place To Visit, but you wouldn’t want to set up Cyber-shop there.

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Posted at 8:39 am on March 11th, 2011 by

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  1. 1. richard mcenroe

    Why do they keep trying? Every one of these laws gets struck down…

    March 11, 2011 - 9:02 am   Link to this Comment
  2. 2. Nimos

    If I could sell my house I’d leave this state. They have us trapped here.

    March 11, 2011 - 9:04 am   Link to this Comment
  3. 3. Darkwater

    Illinois politicians apparently refuse to consider that practically all those ‘brick & mortar’ stores also have e-mail outlets as well. They’re cutting their own throat, only now at an accelerated pace.

    March 11, 2011 - 11:01 am   Link to this Comment
  4. 4. Talnik

    So to make it “a level playing field” are they going to pass a law requiring brick and mortar stores to charge shipping?

    March 11, 2011 - 11:26 am   Link to this Comment
  5. 5. Wayne

    On our annual spring break to Florida my wife and I typically drive through Illinois. We’ll take a different route this year. I refuse to contribute to the Illinois economy in any way shape or form.

    March 11, 2011 - 12:18 pm   Link to this Comment

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