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by jccaldara | 8:38 am, April 22, 2010 | 1 Comment

When the Colorado legislature passed the infamous “Amazon tax,” we got angry. When that caused Amazon to drop its Colorado affiliates, that made us even more mad. Imagine just how furious we’ll be if and when this happens:

Prior to Colorado, the New York and North Carolina state legislatures passed an “Amazon tax”, ostensibly as an attempt to close budget holes. North Carolina then went on a fishing expedition looking for lost tax revenues from the past seven years. After receiving “voluminous information about nearly 50 million items sold to North Carolina customers, including order numbers; the city, county, and zip codes to which items were shipped; transaction dates and prices; and Amazon’s standard product code for the items,” now the Tar Heel state is asking Amazon for more personal information on all its customers.

More personal information… like what exactly?

The Internet retailer says the state’s Department of Revenue is demanding the name and address “of virtually every North Carolina resident who has purchased anything from Amazon since 2003, along with records of what each customer purchased and how much they paid.

Luckily for North Carolinians, Amazon is fighting that request in the courts.

Uh oh. Is this what we have to look forward to here in Colorado? After getting ratted out for all of our online purchases, our personal information is next on the list?

And can I just add that this year has been a stinker in terms of Colorado citizens’ privacy. First the all-payer health care database and now this? Makes me wonder along with our transparency czarina Amy Oliver, where have all the civil libertarians gone?

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  1.   CTBC Director
      April 22nd, 2010 @ 4:57 pm

    Clear The Bench Colorado raised exactly this point in testifying against this unconstitutional tax increase during hearings held before the Senate Finance Committee in early February.

    Director Matt Arnold educated the Senate Finance Committee members on the implications for 4th Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure (this qualifies, don’t you think?).

    From the testimony offered:

    “This bill also presents a constitutional challenge of a different kind – issues of invasion of privacy. Collecting information on every online purchase of Colorado citizens in attempting to enforce this tax will justly provoke extreme outrage. It will also inevitably provoke a host of legal challenges based on 4th Amendment protections.”

    The CTBC Director Matt Arnold touched upon the issue again during the recent Tax Day Tea Party event in Denver:
    http://www.clearthebenchcolorado.org/2010/04/19/clear-the-bench-colorado-director-matt-arnold-speaks-at-the-denver-tax-day-tea-party-rally/

    The Colorado Legislature would not have dared offer this blatantly unconstitutional bill had they not been assured of the backing of the ruling majority on the Colorado Supreme Court.

    Don’t allow your rights to be violated –
    Clear The Bench, Colorado!

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