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How do you kill 25,000 businesses, and the jobs they have, with a single new tax?
"The affiliate nexus tax attempts to circumvent the US Constitution. But even aside from that, it is conceived with a massive flaw. This flaw targets how online retailers advertise, and it threatens the California businesses who place online ads, called Affiliate Marketers.
In California there are 25,000 affiliate marketers who earn their incomes from ads on their websites. Affiliate websites range from blogs for special-needs families and online newspapers, to shopping comparison websites with coupons and money-saving tips, just to name a few.
This affiliate nexus tax has risen out of mistaken claims that affiliate websites, if the owners reside in California, establish nexus for out-of-state retailers who advertise with them.
First of all, placing ads on California-based websites (or television or radio stations or newspapers) does not establish nexus. Affiliate websites advertise, pure and simple. They aren’t employees of the out-of-state retailers, they don’t sell any products, they usually don’t even know who clicks on their ads. Under no definition do affiliates establish nexus for out-of-state retailers."
A website is a business. But it is a business that works on the Internet superhighway, not the 5 Freeway or the 680 freeway.
Pass this Internet tax and the price of goods go up for Californians and thousands of Californians will lose their job--or to keep them, force them to move to Utah, a State with low unemployment because they like jobs.
Democrats know how to easily kill jobs. Isn't it time to defeat them on November 2?
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"The affiliate nexus tax attempts to circumvent the US Constitution. But even aside from that, it is conceived with a massive flaw. This flaw targets how online retailers advertise, and it threatens the California businesses who place online ads, called Affiliate Marketers.
In California there are 25,000 affiliate marketers who earn their incomes from ads on their websites. Affiliate websites range from blogs for special-needs families and online newspapers, to shopping comparison websites with coupons and money-saving tips, just to name a few.
This affiliate nexus tax has risen out of mistaken claims that affiliate websites, if the owners reside in California, establish nexus for out-of-state retailers who advertise with them.
First of all, placing ads on California-based websites (or television or radio stations or newspapers) does not establish nexus. Affiliate websites advertise, pure and simple. They aren’t employees of the out-of-state retailers, they don’t sell any products, they usually don’t even know who clicks on their ads. Under no definition do affiliates establish nexus for out-of-state retailers."
A website is a business. But it is a business that works on the Internet superhighway, not the 5 Freeway or the 680 freeway.
Pass this Internet tax and the price of goods go up for Californians and thousands of Californians will lose their job--or to keep them, force them to move to Utah, a State with low unemployment because they like jobs.
Democrats know how to easily kill jobs. Isn't it time to defeat them on November 2?
More...