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New York Wants To Tax Internet Downloads

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the bits-for-bucks dept.

An anonymous reader writes "NY is considering taxing 'video and music' downloads to offset a burgeoning budget deficit." How long before we all have meters on our routers? This version is just a 4% tax on movies and songs downloaded from services like iTunes, but I'm sure if they could figure out a bit tax, they would.

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  1. Re:I want to see a provision in the stimulus packa by blueg3 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Illegal immigrants also aren't counted by census? They have legal immigrants in New York, too, despite what Rush tells you.

    While newborns don't pay taxes, they will eventually. Or, more clearly, while children born this year aren't increasing the tax base, children born 18 years ago are.

    Unless you have actual figures for the change in the New York tax base, you're just being an uninformed bigot.