MORE JOBS CHASED AWAY: Savings.com sends Dear John letter to California. “Two months ago, Governor Jerry Brown signed the Affiliate-Nexus Tax bill, which requires Internet retailers with a relationship to California-based businesses to pay sales tax on all related transactions. The state government figured that Amazon and other retailers needed the California market too much to bail out of it. Instead, those retailers have cut off their affiliate relationships, which puts thousands of small businesses in California at risk of failure. One of those small businesses, Savings.com, sent a letter to its California customers saying that they will pack up and leave — and take their 100 or so jobs with them. . . . Well, who needs those 100+ jobs anyway? Er, California does, since it has one of the highest state-unemployment rates in the nation at over 12%. Obviously the state of California is more focused on collecting new taxes than in promoting small business, and just as obviously, the small businesses that work with Internet retailers can relocate more easily than most others.”