Jeff Taylor asked why more people aren’t upset about the damage done to Amazon.com affiliates in North Carolina – small businesses that made their living through the online mall.

What’s most disturbing about the tax is that the state risks killing a sector of the economy in its infancy for such a small amount of money – $13 million a year. The House budget included $784 million in higher taxes. The Senate has a plan that is up to $900 million in higher taxes.

The state has written into law hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks for Google, Dell, and Apple, but not for Amazon.com.