Differing opinions are fine, but let's have a reality-based debate. No state is attempting to unilaterally tax Amazon unless it has buildings and employees in the state. The corporation has real facilities you can walk into in 19 states. It collects sales tax in just five of these (two are in states without statewide sales tax). See http://www.amiba.net/resources/news-archive/amazon-nexus-subsidiaries for the list and documentation.

This is scary. I looked for coverage of the court hearing on the Libertarian lawsuit at Google News searching for badnarik + arizona + debate + lawsuit. I got exactly one hit: the NY Sun.

The fact that it's probably not at all conspiratorial makes it even more frightening. The media will tell us what we need to know.

Also, the CPD provided absolute proof that it is a partisan organization when the Rs and Ds first created it in 1987. Its inaugural press release states that the CPD is "a bipartisan, nonprofit, tax exempt organization formed to implement joint sponsorship [of debates]...between their respective nominees" (from pdf available on ReclaimDemocracy.org).