Looks like Amazon has dropped it's click through affiliate program with all NC residents as a result of the NC legislature passing Senate Bill 202 to begin taxing all internet sales, including affiliate related referral sales. North Carolina, which has 11-12% unemployment rate and which currently faces a 4 billion dollar budget shortfall, seems to be moving toward the New York model in terms of attempting to tax anything that moves over the internet.

The NC legislature is certainly on a roll as of late, having recently enacted a State-wide smoking ban that extends to restaurants and bars. And Bev Perdue's tax and spend publicity campaign has caused her own approval numbers to plummet.

btw, NC residents can retain their Amazon affiliate business by simply signing up with an intermediary like Skimlinks.