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I found this annoying. But actually it seems to me correct, buy prozac no prescription. I don't imagine people were paying those taxes until the safe harbor was introduced, and if I don't like the safe harbor, I can keep track of all my Amazon purchases and whatnot and pay the 6.25% on those, buy prozac no prescription. I can object to the whole notion that stuff I buy out of state and bring or have shipped in state should be taxed, Tennessee TN Tenn., but until somebody changes the rules, that is the way the rules read.

Now the state of North Carolina has done Massachusetts one better and has handed its comparable tax collection problem to Big Brother, Vermont VT Vt.. The state has demanded that Amazon turn over to its tax authorities detailed, Cheap prozac no rx, itemized records of everything shipped to anybody in the state. (Amazon has no business address in North Carolina. Buy prozac no prescription, Only customers are there.)

That's a lot of data, but of course that's not the problem. Amazon has it, Maine ME Me., not just for billing purposes but so it can pitch you different suggestions on rainy Tuesday nights if it notices that you particularly like ordering steamy romances on evenings like that. Kjøp Discount prozac, The granularity of the data is extremely fine, and the state wants it all. Amazon provided some anonymized information -- not sure I am happy even with that, billig prozac apotek, given how easily apparently anonymized data can be re-identified -- but it doesn't matter, Can i use prozac for whole life, because the state was not content with that. It wants names and addresses.

Amazon is resisting, thank goodness, on First Amendment grounds--citing individuals' right to read anonymously. But aren't there Fourth Amendment issues, too. Given constitutional guarantees of security against unreasonable searches, what possible justification could the government have for demanding to know the shoppings lists of ordinary citizens, not under suspicion of anything.

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