Amazon wants to make a deal with California

[artie67]

From the LA Times without comment.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-am...6071.story

[davester]

Amazon can drop dead as far as I'm concerned. They have nothing to offer but self-serving proposals and a monopoly. They need us, we don't need them.

[Manlove]

davester wrote:
Amazon can drop dead as far as I'm concerned. They have nothing to offer but self-serving proposals and a monopoly. They need us, we don't need them.

:agree:
True for most every company and government. It would behoove us to remember it.

[Acer]

Just collect the bloody tax already.

[Grace62]

Hmmm, that sounds familiar.

"Amazon could add three more facilities in South Carolina if lawmakers give the online retailer the sales-tax collection exemption it wants for a Lexington County distribution center, lawmakers and business leaders said Tuesday."

Read more: http://www.thestate.com/2011/05/18/18228...z1WlIsABGy

[vision63]

Whatever the law says, Amazon doesn't have to collect it so getting the distribution warehouses might be worth something (in a state with 38 million peeps does 7,000 jobs mean anything?) The victims are all of the affiliates that were let go. I call 'em Remoras. Amazon is betraying them to an extent.

[RE:up]

California can drop dead as far as I'm concerned. They have nothing to offer but self-serving proposals and a monopoly. They need us, we don't need them.

But that's just me.
:oldfogey:

[Trouble]

davester wrote:
Amazon can drop dead as far as I'm concerned. They have nothing to offer but self-serving proposals and a monopoly. They need us, we don't need them.

Keep thinking that way. That same attitude is what drives business away. Reportedly, when Gov. Patterson was told that high taxes drove Rush Limbaugh out of NY, he said that if he had known that, he would have done it earlier. A flip statement sure, but also a naive and very shortsighted statement. A lot of tax money left with him. Same reason why Glenn Beck left as well and went to Texas. They aren't the only ones. As debt-ridden as NY and Ca are, it is pure stupidity to run businesses out.

[graylocks]

davester wrote:
Amazon can drop dead as far as I'm concerned. They have nothing to offer but self-serving proposals and a monopoly. They need us, we don't need them.

Goodness! That level of vitriol is usually reserved for walmart and Starbucks...

[Rolando]

Trouble wrote:
[quote=davester]
Amazon can drop dead as far as I'm concerned. They have nothing to offer but self-serving proposals and a monopoly. They need us, we don't need them.

Keep thinking that way. That same attitude is what drives business away. Reportedly, when Gov. Patterson was told that high taxes drove Rush Limbaugh out of NY, he said that if he had known that, he would have done it earlier. A flip statement sure, but also a naive and very shortsighted statement. A lot of tax money left with him. Same reason why Glenn Beck left as well and went to Texas. They aren't the only ones. As debt-ridden as NY and Ca are, it is pure stupidity to run businesses out.
As debt-ridden as NY and Ca are, it is pure stupidity to give business welfare. I have yet to see this really pays off.