Davis May Back Internet Tax Plan
from the when-the-going-gets-tough...-raise-taxes dept
California’s governor, Gray Davis, has long been an opponent to any sort of internet tax, knowing that it would greatly upset his Silicon Valley-based constituency. Of course, that constituency has gotten much smaller recently, and more importantly, California is in desperate need of tax revenue. So, without any real justification other than “we need that money”, Davis is reconsidering his position on internet taxes. Of course, there’s no explanation for why his old reason for not supporting internet taxes (it would harm a growing industry) don’t still apply. In fact, some are afraid that if a proposal for taxing California companies shipping to California residents was put in place, it would just drive sales to non-California companies.
Comments on “Davis May Back Internet Tax Plan”
Silicon Valley needs Welfare
The Internet Tax is an Outrage! Because we need the government tax subsidies, like steel or farming. We are all for free markets, which is why we need government protection all the more.