How to Kill the Golden Goose (Uncle Sam, this post is for you)

Thanks to brilliant, financially savvy Colorado politicians, Amazon had to let go 4,200 of it affiliates:

DENVER — Amazon.com Inc. cut ties Monday with Colorado online businesses that help it sell products because of a new state law aimed at getting out-of-state, online retailers to collect sales tax.

The move hurts businesses — many of them small, home-based operations — that earn money by using their Web sites and blogs to link customers to online retailers. Colorado has at least 4,200 such businesses, known as affiliates or associates, accounting for about 5,000 jobs, and most of them rely on Amazon to some degree, according to their trade group, the Performance Marketing Association.

I don’t know if you are reading this, Mr. Colorado Governor, but I hope you are.

If you are trying to stimulate an economy and reduce unemployment, the LAST thing to do is… KILL (SELF-) EMPLOYMENT and businesses that EMPLOY people, where INCOME TAX ultimately comes from.

I have a better idea. Why don’t you tax sex? Not only will that raise government revenue and help pay for important things like food stamps for morbidly obese unemployed people and medicare for habitual druggies, but it would also create a whole new tax advisory jobs related to sex tax.

Brilliant!