SOUTH CAROLINA: Amazon Packing After House Vote: “Amazon all but told South Carolina goodbye Wednesday after the online retailer lost a legislative showdown on a sales tax collection exemption it wants to open a distribution center that would bring 1,249 jobs to the Midlands. Company officials immediately halted plans to equip and staff the one million-square-foot building under construction at I-77 and 12th Street near Cayce.” Who needs jobs?

UPDATE: Reader Chip Mathis emails: “Does anyone know where the ‘Alliance for Main Street Fairness’ is getting money? They ran a relentless amount of TV and Radio ads over the past couple of months, and I keep reading in news articles that they are a conservative or Tea Party group. Something smells fishy to me. It doesn’t seem like something the Tea Party would care that much about, but attempting to increase taxes by demonizing corporations sounds like it comes straight from a liberal playbook.”

I don’t think they have much to do with the Tea Party. Maybe with Wal-Mart.