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California Lawmaker Proposes Music Download Tax

Posted by Zonk on from the ideas-from-up-north-moving-south dept.

modemac writes "Sacramento, California Assemblyman Charles Calderon wants to expand a 75-year-old sales tax on 'tangible personal property' to include music downloads from iTunes and other music-download sites. The tax would specifically apply to music downloads, but the estimate used in this article for revenue generated by 'Net downloading also "includes pornography downloads." The measure, AB 1956, will be considered on Monday, April 14th."

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  1. Re:Will only encourage "illegal" downloading by SageMusings · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That's because a large portion of the population are in prisons (more desrve to be). You can't drive when you're in lockdown.

    I lived in Irvine until last October. The family and I decided we had enough of Southern California and left the State. It was probably the single best decision of my life. Sure, it rains more where I'm at but everything else is MUCH better.

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    -- Posted from my parent's basement